Excerpt from Mechanics: An Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, for Colleges and Schools; Statics Sciences is by experiments which can be performed by the learners themselves. In consequence many teachers have arranged for their pupils courses of practical instruo tion designed to illustrate the fundamental principles of the subject they teach. The portions of the following book designated experiments have for the most part been in use for some time as a Practical Course for Medical Students at the Cavendish Laboratory. 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.