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COURSE

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MATHEMATICS,

FOR THE

USE OF ACADEMIES,

AS WELL AS

PRIVATE TUITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY

CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. F.R.S.
Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy.

The Fourth American Edition,

From the Seventh London Edition.

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

An Elementary Essay on Descriptive Geometry.

BY ROBERT ADRAIN, LL.D. F.A.P.S. F.A.A.S, &c.
And Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Columbia
College, New-York.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK,

PUBLISHED BY S. CAMPBELL & SON, EVERT DUYCKINCK, T. &. J
SWORDS, R. M'DERMUT, T. A. RONALDS, COLLINS & HANNAY,

AND GEORGE LONG.

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1826,

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On Geodesic Operations, and the Figure of the Earth

Laws of Gravity-Descent of heavy bodies-Motion of Projectiles in

free space

128

Practical Gunnery

140

Descent of bodies on inclined planes and curve surfaces-Motion of

On the resistance of Fluids, and with their forces and actions on bodies

practical Exercises concerning Specific Gravity

236

239

Of the Piling of Balls and Shells

245

Of Distances by the velocity of Sound

247

Practical Exercises in Mechanics, Statics, Hydraulics, Sound, Motion,

Gravity, Projectiles, and other branches of Natural Philosophy

248

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