Principles of Mechanics e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The following pages represent a lecture course which during several years past has been given to second-year students in physics at Northwestern University. The prerequisites have been a course in general physics and a course, either concurrent or antecedent, in the calculus.