Green cloth binding with gilt title on the (rebacked) spine.

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The Elements of Statics and Dynamics by Sidney Luxton Loney (S. L. Loney) is a classic Cambridge University Press mathematics textbook first published in the late 19th century. The 1920 edition is a vintage printing of this influential educational text covering forces, equilibrium, and motion.

Book Overview

• Author: S. L. Loney (Professor of Mathematics at Royal Holloway College)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (University Press)

• Publication Year: 1920 (1920s printings)

• Language: English

• Subject: Applied Mathematics / Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics)

Key Topics Covered

• Part I (Statics): Forces acting on bodies at rest, composition and resolution of forces, parallel forces, moments, couples, center of gravity, and simple machines.

• Part II (Dynamics): Motion of particles, velocity, acceleration, momentum, and Newton’s laws of motion.

Please view our photographs for the restored status of this book, once a prized possession of Jack Lang’s father (a heavy water pioneer).

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.