Teach Yourself Mechanics
By P. Abbott
English Universities Press | 1959 | ISBN-N/A | PDF | 271 pages | 11 mb
scanned to PDF by me

I had scanned & uploaded 2 books in this "Teach Yourself" series earlier - on Algebra & Statistics. Here is a third book which is pretty old & belongs to my father. I have scanned it with OCR, bookmarks & covers.
The author rightly considers that the approach to mechanics should be largely experimental, and therefore in the early chapters he describes experiments with simple apparatus which can be easily constructed or obtained by the student. This is a splendid book, and anyone working his way through it conscientiously should acquire a sound knowledge of those mechanical principles which are applied in many branches of industry and in the technical branches of the forces.The book is well illustrated with singularly clear line diagrams and full use is made of varied types which make the text very readable.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II - THE LEVER
CHAPTER III - CENTRE OF GRAVITY
CHAPTER - RESULTANT OF NON-PARALLEL FORCES PARALLELOGRAM OF FORCE
CHAPTER - COMPONENTS OF A FORCE, RESOLVED PARTS OF A FORCE
CHAPTER VI - TRIANGLE OF FORCES; POLYGON OF FORCES; LAMI'S THEOREM
CHAPTER VII - FRICTION
CHAPTER VIII - BODIES IN MOTION-VELOCITY
CHAPTER IX - ACCELERATION
CHAPTER X - NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
CHAPTER XI - IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM ; WORK, ENERGY, POWER
CHAPTER XII - MACHINES
CHAPTER XIII - COMPOSITION OF VELOCITIES; RELATIVE VELOCITY
CHAPTER XIV - PROJECTILES
CHAPTER XV - DENSITY; SPECIFIC GRAVITY
CHAPTER XVI - LIQUID PRESSURE
CHAPTER XVII - THE PRESSURE OF GASES
ANSWERS
TABLES