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The Equation of Activity in Dynamics, and the Principle of Zero Activity in Statics.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. R. Hassé
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In spite of the great increase in the last fifteen years in the use of the Calculus in the higher forms of schools, and of its introduction into the Intermediate Examinations of many universities, it has not yet been used as much as it could be in the teaching of elementary Applied Mathematics.

It has, of course, long been realised that in the kinematics of the motion of a particle in a straight line we have some of the best examples of the ideas that are the basis of the Calculus, and the notation and machinery of the Calculus is now extensively used in dealing with this part of the subject.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 13 , Issue 191 , December 1927 , pp. 442 - 448
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1927

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* I am indebted to the Editor for sending me a copy of the fourth edition, in which the subject is treated on the basis of the idea of small displacements. Hence the new method of treatment in the fifth edition is due to Everett.