Mathematical and Physical Papers
Published on 20. July 2009
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344 pages
978-1-108-00262-2 (ISBN)
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Sir George Stokes (1819-1903) established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid. He published no books, but was a prolific lecturer and writer of papers for the Royal Society, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Victoria Institute and other mathematical and scientific institutions. These collected papers (issued between 1880 and 1905) are therefore the only readily available record of the work of an outstanding and influential mathematician, who was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge for over fifty years, Master of Pembroke College, President of the Royal Society (1885-1890), Associate Secretary of the Royal Commission on the University of Cambridge and a Member of Parliament for the University.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
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486 gr
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978-1-108-00262-2 (9781108002622)
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1. On the steady motion of incompressible fluids; 2. On some cases of fluid motion; 3. On the motion of a piston and of the air in a cylinder; 4. On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion, and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids; 5. On the proof of the proposition that (Mx + Ny)-1 is an integrating factor of the homogeneous differential equation M + N dy/dx = 0; 6. On the aberration of light; 7. On Fresnel's theory of the aberration of light; 8. On a formula for determining the optical constants of doubly refracting crystals; 9. On the constitution of the luminiferous ether, viewed with reference to the aberration of light; 10. Report on recent researches on hydrodynamics; 11. Supplement to a memoir on some cases of fluid motion; 12. On the theory of oscillatory waves; 13. On the resistance of a fluid to two oscillating spheres; 14. On the critical values of the sums of period series; 15. Supplement to a paper on the theory of oscillatory waves; Index.