Volume 1
A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts / by Thomas Young.
- Thomas Young
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts / by Thomas Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![CONTENTS. *** The matter within brackets [ ] has been supplied by the Editor. PART THE FIRST. —MECHANICS. LECTURE I. Introduction, page 1. Objects of the Royal Institution; Dissemination of elementary knowledge, 1. Education of females; Theory of practical mechanics, and of manufactures, 2. Simplicity of useful theory, 3. Difficulty of making improvements ; Repository of the Institution; Library; Journals; Nature of the lectures, 4?. Merits of English philosophers, 5. Delivery of the lectures; General view, 6. Division of the lectures ; Synthetical method,7...11. Causation, 11. Induction; Erroneous inductions; Newtonian rules of philosophizing, 12. Their insufficiency, 13. LECTURE II. On Motion, 13. Definition of motion, 13. Absolute and relative motion; All motion relative, 14. Quiescent space; Direction of motion; Laws of motion, 15. Time, 16, 17. Composition of motion; Space in motion; Result of two motions, 18. Resolution of motion; General result of a number of motions, 19. LECTURE III. On Accelerating Forces, 21. Definition of force; Action of force, 21. Acceleration and retardation; Velocity 22. Uniform force; Gravitation; Laws of falling bodies; Atwood’s machine, 23. Space described; Law of Galileo; General law of velocities, 24. Ascent; Velocity due to a height, 25. LECTURE IV. On Deflective Forces, 2G. Centrifugal force; Sling; Motion of a hoop, 26. Whirling table; Laws of central forces, 27; Keplerian laws, 28. Ellipsis; Projectiles, 29. Resolution of oblique motion ; Horizontal range; Best elevation, 30. Parabolic path; Prac- tice of gunnery; Experiments of Robins, 31,32. b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301840_0001_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
