Excerpt from Elementary Applied Mechanics: Being the Simpler and More Practical Cases of Stress and Strain Wrought Out Individually From First Principles by Means of Elementary Mathematics, Illustrated by Diagrams and Graduated Examples, Intended as an Easy Introduction to the General Treatment Of This volume is the first Of two on the subject of Internal Stress and Strain which are intended to supply the felt want of a complete and systematic set of exercises. It is based on the late professor rankine's treatment of the subject in his Applied M cchcmics and Civil En gineering, and will serve as a companion, or as an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.