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Excerpt from Elementary Practical Mechanics
It should, perhaps, be stated that the present text has grown out of a series of. Notes issued for several years in mimeograph form to the students in the School of Science and Technology, Pratt Institute. Nothing is included, therefore, which has not stood the test of several years' use with students in elementary technical courses. The time given to the subject at Pratt Institute is repre sented by one-half year with five lectures or recitations and six hours laboratory per week. The requirements in mathematics are limited to simultaneous and simple quad ratio equations and the simplest trigonometric functions.
The order of presentation is that which has been found to give best results. General principles and definitions to form a ground work for laboratory exercises are introduced early, and the complete statement of theory, together with its applications, is then reached through laboratory and lecture work combined. The importance of carefully adapted laboratory exercises in teaching mechanics cannot be over emphasized. Numerous suggestions of models, etc, used in the laboratories at Pratt Institute are given in the figures illustrating this text.
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