A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle
With Numerous Examples

Published in 1898, this textbook offers extensive coverage of dynamics, with formulae and examples throughout.

Edward John Routh (Author)

9781108050340, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 June 2013

436 pages, 10 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 kg

As senior wrangler in 1854, Edward John Routh (1831–1907) was the man who beat James Clerk Maxwell in the Cambridge mathematics tripos. He went on to become a highly successful coach in mathematics at Cambridge, producing a total of twenty-seven senior wranglers during his career - an unrivalled achievement. In addition to his considerable teaching commitments, Routh was also a very able and productive researcher who contributed to the foundations of control theory and to the modern treatment of mechanics. This textbook, first published in 1898, offers extensive coverage of dynamics, providing formulae and examples throughout. While the growth of modern physics and mathematics may have forced out the problem-based mechanics of Routh's textbooks from the undergraduate syllabus, the utility and importance of his work is undiminished.

Preface
1. Elementary considerations
2. Rectilinear motion
3. Motion of projectiles
4. Constrained motion in two dimensions
5. Motion in two dimensions
6. Central forces
7. Motion in three dimensions
8. Some special problems
Index.

Subject Areas: History of mathematics [PBX]