The Cambridge Course of Elementary Natural Philosophy: Being the Propositions in Mechanics and Hydrostatics in which Those Persons who are Not Candidates for Honours are Examined for the Degree of B.A. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acting action applied arms atmosphere balance Barometer base body bulk called Cambridge Centre of Gravity cloth College column Common construction contains Crown 8vo cubic inches cylinder density depth Describe difference direction distance Edition effect equal equilibrium Examples Explain fall feet floats fluid foot forces forces act fulcrum given greater heavy Hence horizontal immersed Inclined keep length less Lever magnitude matter means measured mercury motion move opposite parallel passes piston placed plane position pounds Power pressure produce Prop prove pulleys quantity Receiver represented respectively rest Resultant right angles round shew sides solid Specific Gravity square inch straight Lever straight line string substance supported supposed surface taken Thermometer triangle tube uniform upwards valve vertical vessel volume weight whole
Popular passages
Page 27 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Page 10 - MORGAN — A COLLECTION OF PROBLEMS AND EXAMPLES IN MATHEMATICS. With Answers. By HA Morgan, MA, Sadlerian and Mathematical Lecturer of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Page 6 - ON SOUND AND ATMOSPHERIC VIBRATIONS. With the Mathematical Elements of Music. Designed for the Use of Students in the University. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo.
Page 5 - THE SEVEN KINGS OF ROME. An Easy Narrative, abridged from the First Book of Livy by the omission of Difficult Passages; being a First Latin Reading Book, with Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary.
Page 9 - THE FIRST THREE SECTIONS of NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA. With Notes and Illustrations. Also a Collection of Problems, principally intended as Examples of Newton's Methods. By PERCIVAL FROST, MA, late Fellow of St. John's College, Mathematical Lecturer of King's College, Cambridge.
Page 5 - HELLENICA; OR, A HISTORY OF GREECE IN GREEK, as related by Diodorus and Thucydides ; being a First Greek Reading Book, with explanatory Notes, Critical and Historical.
Page 10 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Page 9 - HEMMING— AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use of Colleges and Schools. By GW HEMMING, MA, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Second Edition, with Corrections and Additions. 8vo.
Page 9 - AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE LUNAR THEORY, with a Brief Sketch of the Problem up to the time of Newton. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth. 5*. 6d. Hemming. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use; of Colleges and Schools.
Page 11 - FRS, late Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Examiner in the University of London.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Course of Elementary Natural Philosophy: Being the Propositions in Mechanics and Hydrostatics in which Those Persons who are Not Candidates for Honours are Examined for the Degree of B.A. |
| Editor | Thomas Lund |
| Compiled by | John Charles Snowball |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1864 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |