Statics
A Text-Book for the Use of the Higher Divisions in Schools and for First Year Students at the Universities

A textbook on statics based upon lectures by the distinguished twentieth-century Cambridge mathematician.

Arthur Stanley Ramsey (Author)

9781108003155, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

316 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

A. S. Ramsey (1867–1954) was a distinguished Cambridge mathematician and President of Magdalene College. He wrote several textbooks 'for the use of higher divisions in schools and for first year students at university'. This book on statics, published in 1934, was intended as a companion volume to his Dynamics of 1929 and like the latter was based upon his lectures to students of the mathematical tripos, but it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, provides an introduction and offers more that 100 example problems with their solutions. Topics include vectors, forces acting at a point, moments, friction, centres of gravity, work and energy, and elasticity.

1. Introduction
2. Vectors
3. Forces acting at a point
4. Moments, parallel forces and couples
5. Coplanar forces
6. The solution of problems
7. Bending moments
8. Graphical statics
9. Friction
10. Centres of gravity
11. Work and energy
12. Flexible chains and strings
13. Elasticity
14. Forces in three dimensions.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]