Mathematics for Practical Men: Being a Common-place Book of ... Pure and Mixed Mathematics, with Their Application; Especially to the Pursuits of Surveyors, Architects ... and Civil Engineers. With Numerous Engravings

H. C. Baird & Company, 1877 - 427 páginas

ARITHMETIC	1

Division of whole numbers	10

Tables of weights and measures	19

Reduction of decimals	29

Addition subtraction c of ditto	38

Powers and roots square cube and higher roots	50

ALGEBRA	58

Addition subtraction multiplication division	70

Equilibrium of polygons centering roofs c	226

Smarts mathematical chainbridge	232

Motions about a centre or axis	243

Portable pendulum	249

Table of lengths and vibrations of pendulums	255

Central forces steamengine governors flywheels	261

Principles of chronometers escapements c	269

Select mechanical experiments	278

Simple equations extermination	79

Quadratic equations	86

Progressions arithmetical and geometrical	99

PAGE	104

Circles and inscribed and circumscribed figures	112

Planes and solids	119

Computation and use of formulæ	132

TRIGONOMETRY	133

Determination of the heights and distances of objects	143

by approximate and mechanical methods	150

Properties of the hyperbola and parabola	161

General application to architecture	167

Table of relations strains c in catenarian curves applicable	174

Professor Farishs isometrical perspective	181

MENSURATION	195

MECHANICS	205

Mechanical powers lever wheel and axle pulley inclined plane	214

General application of the principles of statics to the equilibrium	222

HYDROSTATICS	284

Floating bodies buoyancy Fareys selfacting flood gate	291

Rules for weights of leaden pipes and rims of castiron fly	300

8852	315

Table of rise of water occasioned by piers of bridges and other	316

Watermills undershot overshot breast Barkers	325

67	327

Pumps sucking lifting forcing fireengine Clarks quicksilver	333

Wind and windmills Smeaton Coulomb c	346

70	347

78	354

Useful tables and remarks on steamengines railroads canals	373

86	375

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE STRENGTH	384

91	387

Passive strength modulus of elasticity c	403

SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES	413

Of relations of the arc abscissa ordinate and subnormal in	424

Título	Mathematics for Practical Men: Being a Common-place Book of ... Pure and Mixed Mathematics, with Their Application; Especially to the Pursuits of Surveyors, Architects ... and Civil Engineers. With Numerous Engravings
Autor	Olinthus Gregory
Edición	2
Editor	H. C. Baird & Company, 1877
Procedencia del original	Universidad Estatal de Ohio
Digitalizado	1 Ago. 2014
Largo	427 páginas

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