A Treatise on Mechanics

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Henry Kater. A Treatise on Mechanics

A Treatise on Mechanics

Table of Contents

CHAP. I. PROPERTIES OF MATTER—MAGNITUDE—IMPENETRABILITY—FIGURE—FORCE

CHAP. II. DIVISIBILITY—POROSITY—DENSITY—COMPRESSIBILITY—ELASTICITY—DILATABILITY

CHAP. III. INERTIA

CHAP. IV. ACTION AND REACTION

CHAP. V. THE COMPOSITION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCE

CHAP. VI. ATTRACTION

CHAP. VII. TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY

CHAP. VIII. OF THE MOTION OF BODIES ON INCLINED PLANES AND CURVES

CHAP. IX. THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY

CHAP. X. THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AN AXIS

CHAP. XI. ON THE PENDULUM

CHAP. XII. OF SIMPLE MACHINES

CHAP. XIII. OF THE LEVER

CHAP. XIV. OF WHEEL-WORK

CHAP. XV. OF THE PULLEY

CHAP. XVI. ON THE INCLINED PLANE, WEDGE, AND SCREW

CHAP. XVII. ON THE REGULATION AND ACCUMULATION OF FORCE

CHAP. XVIII. MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES FOR MODIFYING MOTION

CHAP. XIX. OF FRICTION AND THE RIGIDITY OF CORDAGE

CHAP. XX. ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

CHAP. XXI. ON BALANCES AND PENDULUMS

INDEX

Footnote

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Dionysius Lardner, Henry Kater

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The several qualities of bodies which we have noticed in this chapter, when viewed in relation to each other, present many circumstances worthy of attention.

(26.) It is a physical law, of high generality, that an increase in the temperature, or degree of heat by which a body is affected, is accompanied by an increase of volume; and that a diminution of temperature is accompanied by a diminution of volume. The exceptions to this law will be noticed and explained in our treatise on Heat. Hence it appears that the reduction of temperature is an effect which, considered mechanically, is equivalent to compression or condensation, since it diminishes the volume without altering the mass; and since this is an effect of which all bodies whatever are susceptible, it follows that all bodies whatever have pores. (23.)

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