Statics
Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity

A 1928 textbook on statics for students with some knowledge of mechanics.

Horace Lamb (Author)

9781108005319, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

376 pages, 181 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

Sir Horace Lamb (1849–1934) the British mathematician, wrote a number of influential works in classical physics. A pupil of Stokes and Clerk Maxwell, he taught for ten years as the first professor of mathematics at the University of Adelaide before returning to Britain to take up the post of professor of physics at the Victoria University of Manchester (where he had first studied mathematics at Owens College). As a teacher and writer his stated aim was clarity: 'somehow to make these dry bones live'. His Statics was first published in 1912, and the third edition, offered here, in 1928. It was intended as a textbook for students with some knowledge of mechanics, and deals mainly with two-dimensional problems: examples are provided at the end of each section.

Preface to the third edition
Introduction
1. Statics of a particle
2. Plane kinematics of rigid body
3. Plane statics
4. Graphical statics
5. Theory of frames
6. Work and energy
7. Analytical statics
8. Theory of mass-systems
9. Flexible chains
10. Laws of fluid pressure
11. Equilibrium of floating bodies
12. General conditions of equilibrium of a fluid
13. Equilibrium of gaseous fluids
14. Capillarity
15. Strains and stresses
16. Extension of bars
Flexure and torsion of bars
18. Stresses in cylindrical and spherical shells
Index.

Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT]