Download or read book The Elementary Part of a Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies written by Edward John Routh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward John Routh (1831-1907) was a highly successful mathematics coach at Cambridge. He also contributed to the foundations of control theory and to the modern treatment of mechanics. Published in 1891, this first part of a revised textbook establishes the principles of dynamics, providing formulae and examples throughout.