Mechanics And Properties Of Matter

This book is the outcome of a course given at the College of Wooster
to juniors who intend either to major in physics or to proceed with
the cooperative plan in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Prior to studying the material in this book a student is
required to have had a minimum of a year's course in general college
physics and the same in calculus. The course in mechanics and
properties of matter lasts one semester, or half a year. Each week
there are three lecture hours and a two- or three-hour period used
either for discussion of problems or for laboratory work. Usually
the problem sessions have taken about two-thirds and the laboratory
work about one-third of the available time. All the material included
in this book has never been covered in any one semester though prac-
tically all of it has been used at one time or another. Dynamics and
wave motion have always been given, and then selections have been
made from the remaining topics