Statics Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity

Sir Horace Lamb (1849–1934) the British mathematician, wrote a number of influential works in classical physics. A pupil of Stokes and Clerk Maxwell, he taught for ten years as the first professor of mathematics at the University of Adelaide before returning to Britain to take up the post of professor of physics at the Victoria University of Manchester (where he had first studied mathematics at Owens College). As a teacher and writer his stated aim was clarity: 'somehow to make these dry bones live'. His Statics was first published in 1912, and the third edition, offered here, in 1928. It was intended as a textbook for students with some knowledge of mechanics, and deals mainly with two-dimensional problems: examples are provided at the end of each section.

Preface to the third edition; Introduction; 1. Statics of a particle; 2. Plane kinematics of rigid body; 3. Plane statics; 4. Graphical statics; 5. Theory of frames; 6. Work and energy; 7. Analytical statics; 8. Theory of mass-systems; 9. Flexible chains; 10. Laws of fluid pressure; 11. Equilibrium of floating bodies; 12. General conditions of equilibrium of a fluid; 13. Equilibrium of gaseous fluids; 14. Capillarity; 15. Strains and stresses; 16. Extension of bars; Flexure and torsion of bars; 18. Stresses in cylindrical and spherical shells; Index.

As a teacher and writer, Sir Horace Lamb's stated aim was clarity: 'somehow to make these dry bones live'. His Statics was first published in 1912, and the third edition, offered here, in 1928. It was intended as a textbook for students with some knowledge of mechanics.