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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Part I. In the first place, I will take up the equations of motion of an elastic solid. I assume that the fundamental principles are familiar to you. At the same time, I should be very glad if any person present would, without the slightest hesitation, ask for explanations if anything is not understood. I want to be on a conferent footing with you, so that the work shall be rather something between you and me, than something in which I shall be making a performance before you in a matter in which many of you may be quite as competent as I am, if not more so.
I want, if we can get something done in half an hour, on these problems of molar dynamics as we may call it, to distinguish from Molecular dynamics, to come among you, and talk with you for a few moments, and take a little rest; and then go on to a problem of molecular dynamics to prepare the way for motions depending on mutual interference among particles under varying circumstances that may perhaps have applications in physical science and particularly to the theory of light.
Molar
The fundamental equations of equilibrium of elastic solids are, of course, included in D'Alembert's form of the equations of motion. I shall keep to the notation that is employed in Thomson and Tait's Natural Philosophy, which is substantially the same notation as is employed by other writers.
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