The history of the Parallelogram Rule for composing physical quantities, such as motions and forces, is marked by conceptual difficulties leading to false starts and halting progress. In particular, ...
THE objection to Duchayla's proof of the “parallelogram of forces” is, I suppose, admitted by all mathematicians. To base the fundamental principle of the equilibrium of a particle on the ...
THIS book is one of a series of manuals now being published by Messrs. Cassell and Co., intended for the use of technical students, and claims, to quote the preface, “to put before non-mathematical ...