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Some Points on the Teaching of Rational Mechanics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

L. N. G. Filon
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By rational mechanics is meant the development of the subject of Mechanics according to a strict logical scheme, proceeding, like Geometry, from certain hypotheses or axioms established (or indicated) by experiment, from which particular theorems or applications are deduced. Every branch of theoretical physics aims at such a complete rational treatment, but whereas in Geometry the axioms have long ago been classified and isolated, and the bulk of the science consists of the deductions from them, in Physics we are still largely occupied with the discovery of the laws and axioms.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 13 , Issue 183 , July 1926 , pp. 146 - 153
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1926

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Footnotes

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A lecture delivered to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association, Feb. 26, 1926.

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page 151 note * Omitted in the figure, not to overload the diagram.