The Dynamics of Particles | Arthur Gordon Webster | Dover 1959 Near Fine
Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1959
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: The Archives, Manassas, VA, U.S.A.The Archives
AbeBooks seller since December 10, 2024
Association member: ESA
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 34.47
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
This volume is the 1959 Dover Publications unabridged reprint of Arthur Gordon Webster's Second Edition, preserving in full the authoritative revised text and illustrations that made the work a cornerstone of advanced mechanics. Dover's photographic reissue presents the complete Second Edition without alteration, bringing back into circulation a text that had been out of print for decades and was long relied upon by physicists, mathematicians, and engineers working in classical mechanics, elasticity, hydrodynamics, and applied mathematical physics. The book is handsomely produced in Dover's distinctive mid-century typographic style and remains remarkably fresh in appearance, with clean, bright pages and crisp mathematical notation throughout. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of original laid-in ephemera: the 1959 purchase receipt from Ed Henolt's Berkeley Book Store, a respected West Coast academic bookseller known for serving the University of California community - an uncommon survival that adds tangible provenance and period context. A foundational reference for serious study, this copy represents the first Dover printing of the unabridged Second Edition, valued for its textual fidelity, durability, and historical continuity within the Dover science catalogue. Arthur Gordon Webster (1863-1923) was an American physicist and educator who played a key role in shaping advanced physics instruction in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A longtime professor at Clark University, he was an early advocate for rigorous theoretical training and helped introduce European developments in mechanics and acoustics to American students. Webster was also a founding member, and later president, of the American Physical Society, and his textbooks and lecture-based works remain respected for their clarity, mathematical rigor, and lasting influence on classical mechanics and applied physics.…
Seller Inventory # NF.WEB.1959.1
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Dynamics of Particles | Arthur Gordon Webster | Dover 1959 Near Fine
- Author
- Arthur Gordon Webster
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 1959
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Non-Fiction, Science
The Archives
Manassas, VA, U.S.A.
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 2 to 5 business days | 1 to 2 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 4.47 | £ 19.35 |
Payment methods
Store description
A thoughtfully curated collection of unique and vintage literature. Small business in Historic Manassas, Virginia.
Specialty
Used/Vintage BooksAssociation member
Seller's business information
The Archives
VA, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to The Archives, Manassas, Virginia, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.