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Appendix A - Role of Impact in Development of Mechanics during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2018

W. J. Stronge
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Impact Mechanics , pp. 317 - 335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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