This very detailed essay deals with the foundations of mechanics and, more specifically, the important treatise "Eléments de statique" published by Louis Poinsot, firstly in 1803, and revised and reprinted many times. The author focuses on the main innovative concept introduced by Poinsot, the couple, that is a pair of forces, coplanar but non collinear, equal in magnitude and direction but opposite in sense. The concept of couple is central to Poinsot’s work, on which he based not only his statics but also a part of his dynamics.
Grattan-Guinness, I. From anomaly to fundament: Louis Poinsot's theory of the couple in mechanics
BORGATO, Maria Teresa
2015
Abstract
This very detailed essay deals with the foundations of mechanics and, more specifically, the important treatise "Eléments de statique" published by Louis Poinsot, firstly in 1803, and revised and reprinted many times. The author focuses on the main innovative concept introduced by Poinsot, the couple, that is a pair of forces, coplanar but non collinear, equal in magnitude and direction but opposite in sense. The concept of couple is central to Poinsot’s work, on which he based not only his statics but also a part of his dynamics.File in questo prodotto:
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