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Mechanics, heat and sound.
- Title
- Mechanics, heat and sound.
- Author
- Sears, Francis Weston, 1898-1975
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass., Addison-Wesley Press, 1950.
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- Description
- 527 p. illus.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Principles of physics series
- Uniform Title
- Addison-Wesley principles of physics series.
- Subject
- Note
- First ed. published in 1944 as v.1 of the author's Principles of physics.
- Contents
- Composition and resolution of vectors -- Statics -- Moments--center of gravity -- Linear motion -- Newton's second law -- Motion of a projectile -- Center of mass -- Work and energy -- Impulse and momentum -- Circular motion -- Moment of inertia -- Rotation and translation -- Elasticity -- Harmonic motion -- Gravitation -- Hydrostatics and surface tension -- Hydrodynamics and viscosity -- Temperature--expansion -- Quantity of heat -- Transfer of heat -- Change of phase -- Properties of gases--the ideal gas -- Real gases -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Wave motion -- Vibration of strings and air columns -- Sound waves. The ear and hearing.
- LCCN
- ^^^51000899^
- OCLC
- 351605
- SCSB-10279351
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library