The Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Vol. 2: Statics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Augustus Jay Du Bois

9780656047215: The Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Vol. 2: Statics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Vol. 2: Statics

Any limited portion of matter we call a b A body so small that, so far as its motion is concerned, we can disregard its size we call a material point or particle. Just as a mathematical point, having no dimensions, cannot rotate, but can have motion of trans lation only, so a material point or particle is considered as having motion of translation only.

Eve body may be considered as a system composed of such mate points or particles.

The diagram representation of a particle is then a mathematical point, ha position only.

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