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Contents
ABSTRACT DYNAMICS | 1 |
Fluid pressure depending on external forcesSurfaces of equal | 4 |
Partly rewritten | 9 |
Small addition | 12 |
Attraction of a spherical surface of which the density varies | 18 |
Rate of increase of pressurePressure in a calm atmosphere | 29 |
PotentialForce in terms of the potentialEquipotential sur | 36 |
Greens problem reduced to the proper general solution | 56 |
to 324 Same as old 331 to | 325 |
to 336 Same as old 318 to 328 with some alterationsco | 326 |
A homogeneous ellipsoid is a figure of equilibrium of a | 327 |
Equilibrium ellipsoid of three unequal axesGeneral problem | 334 |
Addition including slightly disturbed equilibrium new | 337 |
Some addition | 338 |
Digression on spherical harmonicsHarmonic spheroidHar | 341 |
Same as nonmathematical portion of old | 343 |
Reference to Tide Predicter added | 58 |
Addition | 62 |
Second investigation of attraction of ellipsoidElliptic | 66 |
Small addition | 76 |
Centre of gravityCentrobaric bodies proved possible | 82 |
Some alteration | 90 |
Rodrigues coordinates new | 95 |
Addition | 96 |
Small addition | 97 |
STATICS OF SOLIDS AND FLUIDS | 98 |
Somewhat altered | 100 |
Rewritten and enlarged | 101 |
Rewritten | 102 |
Addition | 107 |
Additiontransient terrestrial nutation of 306 days new | 108 |
Slight alteration | 110 |
Additionrolling and spinning bodies new | 111 |
Additiondynamics of twist in kinks new | 123 |
Equilibrium of a flexible and inextensible cordCatenary | 128 |
Small alteration | 130 |
Additionintegral curvature horograph new | 137 |
Spiral springsSpiral spring of infinitely small inclination | 144 |
Elastic curve transmitting force and coupleKirchhoffs | 151 |
Flexure of a plane elastic plateDefinitionsGeometrical | 174 |
Some alteration | 184 |
Plate bent by any forcesConditions of equilibriumEqua | 188 |
190j Addition 198 Rewrittendegrees of freedomgeometrical slide new | 198 |
Symmetrical flexure of flat ringFlexure of flat ring | 200 |
Slight alteration | 201 |
Transmission of force through an elastic solidHomogeneous | 206 |
Slight addition | 212 |
Homogeneousness definedMolecular hypothesis assumes | 216 |
Units of length and time new | 223 |
VOL II | 225 |
Fundamental problems of mathematical theoryConditions | 233 |
Part omitted | 245 |
St Venants application to torsion problemsTorsion pro | 246 |
Small addition | 267 |
by a single bending stress by simultaneous | 268 |
Case of 647 independently investigatedRapid decrease | 274 |
Footnote new | 276 |
Definition of Principal axes new | 282 |
Reference added | 283 |
Problem of 696 solved for spherical shellDilatation proved | 286 |
Slight addition | 289 |
Considerable addition new | 293 |
Surfacetractions givenComponent tractions on any spheri | 294 |
Small alteration | 317 |
Old 329 rewritten and extended | 318 |
Old 330with considerable additionsignoration of coordinates new | 319 |
Physical problems relative to plane rectangular and circular | 344 |
345 i to xxviii Oscillations with frictiondissipation of energyposi tional and motional forcesgyrostaticsstability new | 345 |
Harmonic spheroidal levels of high ordersUndulation of level | 352 |
Determinateness of potential through space from its value over | 358 |
Figure of the sea level determinable from measurements | 367 |
and 374 Same as old | 373 |
to 380 Same as old 375 to 379 with alterations | 374 |
Hydrostatic examples resumedNo mutual force between por | 379 |
and 382 Same as old | 380 |
to 386 Same as old 381 to 384 Old 385 and 386 omitted | 383 |
398 Harmonic analysis new | 393 |
Equilibrium of rotating spheroid of heterogeneous liquid | 398 |
Addition on calculating machines new | 401 |
Rewritten | 404 |
Laplaces hypothetical law of density within the earthAs | 406 |
Footnote quoted from old 830 compare with new 830 | 408 |
Rewritten | 409 |
Comparison of Laplaces hypothesis with observationThe | 415 |
Numerical estimates of the amount of tidal frictionSecular | 420 |
Part rewritten | 429 |
Rewritten | 431 |
Extendedbifilar balance new | 435 |
Part rewritten | 443 |
Slightly altered and part omittel | 451 |
Advance in knowledge of tides since the first editionThe | 452 |
and 454 Rewritten | 453 |
455 | 455 |
458 | 458 |
Equations of Equilibrium of an Elastic Solid deduced from | 461 |
On the Secular Cooling of the Earth | 468 |
and 479 Small addition | 478 |
APPENDIX E On the Age of the Suns Heat | 485 |
f and 492 Slight alteration | 491 |
Integral of normal attraction over a closed surface new | 493 |
494 a to q Theory of potentialattraction of ellipsoids new | 494 |
APPENDIX F On the Size of Atoms | 495 |
Small addition | 496 |
Example added | 501 |
APPENDIX G On Tidal Friction by G H Darwin | 503 |
Small alterations and additions | 505 |
Part rewritten | 506 |
Slight alteration | 507 |
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Appendix B I Tidepredicter new 29 II Equationsolver new III to VI Mechanical integrator new VII Harmonic analyser new | 29 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Treatise On Natural Philosophy |
| Author | Peter Guthrie Tait William Thomson |
| Publisher | CUP Archive, 2022 |
| Length | 564 pages |
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