The Elements of Mechanics (Classic Reprint): A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools: A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Franklin, W. S.

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ISBN 10: 133045541X ISBN 13: 9781330455418

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Elements of Mechanics: A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools

Such a method is certainly calculated to limber up our theories and put them all at work,' the pragmatici method our friends the philosophers call it, a method which pretends to a conquer ing destiny and whatever one may think of that philosophy of life which exhibits itself in a temperament of the most intensely practical and matter-of-fact type, it is certain that pragmatism is the only philosophy a science teacher can entertain and escape what to him is the most dangerous form of idolatry, science for its own sake.

We wish to place on record our contempt for the poundal as an actual practical unit of force, and also for the slug pounds) as an actual practical unit of mass. Engineers will per haps always measure breaking strengths and the like in pounds weight, and hungry people will perhaps always buy bread and meat by the pound. But most certainly we do need the word pounded or the word slug so as to enable systematic units and practical units to be connected in intelligible argument. We pre fer the word pounded for this purpose. There is no doubt in our minds that practical units should be accepted in their entirety, pounds of cargo and pounds-weight of propelling force, and we consider that to attempt to simplify the equations of dynamics by the introduction of an unfamiliar and unused unit of force or mass is ridiculous.

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Excerpt from The Elements of Mechanics: A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools

In attempting to explain the object which we have had in view in preparing this elementary treatise on Mechanics, we will assume that those to whom this preface is addressed have read our introductory chapter and, particularly, the section entitled The Science of Physics.

We consider that the most important function of the teacher of physics is to build the logical and mechanical structure of the science; the logical structure mainly by lecture and recitation work, including a great deal of practice by the student in numerical calculation, and the mechanical structure of the science mainly by laboratory work. We believe that these two aspects of physics study should run along together. This text, however, is intended as a basis for the work of the class room.

One difficulty in the teaching of physics is that the native sense of most men is incapable, without stimulation, of supplying the materials upon which the logical structure of the science is intended to operate. Those modern studies in psychology which have brought to light the so-called marginal regions of the mind have surely an important bearing upon this question. All elemental knowledge such as the knowing how to throw a ball, how to ride a bicycle, how to swim, or how to use a tool, seems to be locked in these marginal regions as a very substantial but very highly specialized kind of intuition, and the problem of teaching elementary mechanics is perhaps the problem of how, by suggestion or otherwise, to drag this material into the field of consciousness where it may be transformed into a generalized logical structure having traffic relations with every department of the mind.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133045541X
• ISBN 13: 9781330455418
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304