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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Principles of mechanics</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>J L Synge ; Byron A Griffith</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart> Byron A Griffith</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher> : McGraw-Hill</publisher>
    <dateIssued>, 1959</dateIssued>
    <edition> 3d ed</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xvii, 552 pages   ; 24 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>
pt. I. Plane mechanics. Foundations of mechanics --
Methods of plane statics --
Applications in plane statics --
Plane kinematics --
Methods of plane dynamics --
Applications in plane dynamics: motion of a particle --
Applications in plane dynamics: motion of a rigid body and of a system --
Plane impulsive motion --
pt. II. Mechanics in space. Products of vectors --
Statics in space --
Kinematics. Kinetic energy and angular momentum --
Methods of dynamics in space --
Applications in dynamics in space: motion of a particle --
Applications in dynamics in space: motion of a rigid body --
pt. III. General methods and relativity. The equations of Lagrange and Hamilton --
Hamiltonian methods --
Theory of vibration --
The special theory of relativity.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/J L Synge</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Mechanics</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">531 SYN</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">007Y857873</identifier>
  <identifier type="">Donated by Mathematics Department</identifier>
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