An elementary treatise on dynamics

the long version

"Although in recent years several most important works on Dynamics have been published in England, yet none have been issued which seem to fill the role contemplated in this book. In its composition we have started from the most elementary conceptions, so that any Student who is acquainted with the notation of the Calculus can commence the treatise without requiring the previous study of any other work on the subject. The first half contains a tolerably full treatment of what is usually styled the Dynamics of a Particle. The latter half treats of the Kinematics and Kinetics of Eigid Bodies; and throughout we have kept the practical nature of the subject in view, and have, in general, avoided purely fancy problems. In an early chapter we have introduced and elucidated the general principle of Work or Energy, and have given subsequently a more complete treatment of this great principle, illustrating it by a brief application to the theory of Thermodynamics." -- page v.