The theory of the equilibrium and motion of fluids / By Thomas Webster.

  • Thomas Webster
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[1836]
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    PREFACE. In the 66 Principles of Hydrostatics,^ published a few months ago, I dwelt in detail on the phenomena which occur in considering the mechanical properties of fluids, and on the principles to which they lead, and I illustrated those principles by their applications in various machines. In the present treatise, which may be con¬ sidered as a mathematical supplement to the former, taking these principles as established, I have endeavoured to develope them by the application of the Calculus. The two will, I hope, be found to contain the inductive and deductive reasoning which belongs to that depart¬ ment of natural philosophy of which they profess to treat. The present treatise is compiled principally from the writings of Poisson and Challis, the well-known work of the former having furnished most of the pro¬ positions in the equilibrium, as the various papers of the latter have done those in the motion, of fluids; and I have endeavoured to bring before the student what has hitherto been done in this department of science, and to point out the difficulties which present themselves to its further progress. These difficulties are purely mathematical, and I venture to hope, that when it is fully understood that this science and that of Light are at a stand because of the imperfect state of our analysis,
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