Excerpt from The Principles of Mechanics: For Students of Physics and Engineering
The following pages represent a lecture course which during several years past has been given to second-year students in physics at Northwestern University.
The prerequisites have been a course in general physics and a course, either concurrent or antecedent, in the calculus.
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