Carl Barus: Dynamics

Carl Barus was U.S. physicist. Explore interesting quotes on dynamics.
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“The reviewer is aware… he has given an imperfect account of this remarkable book. That Klein's researches constitute a splendid advance in dynamics of the rotation of a rigid body there can be no question. One cannot but hope that the outline given in these Princeton lectures may soon be expanded and put in shape more easily assimilated by persons more moderately versed in the theory of elliptic functions.”

Carl Barus

"The Mathematical Theory of the Top" (April 8, 1898)

Books , Hope , Question , Personality

“[F]ew important steps in dynamical geology will be made until the methods for the accurate measurement of high temperatures and high pressures have not only been perfected but rendered easily available. On the basis of this conviction the present memoir on high temperatures has been prepared… [I]f the investigation be of any fullness, it is almost essential that the observer master the component parts of his research separately; and not until he has satisfactorily done this can he apply them conjointly.”

Carl Barus

p, 125
"On the Thermo-Electric Measurement of High Temperatures" (April 8, 1889)

Parting , Perfection

“Looking over such famous old books as Montmort's 'Analyse des jeux de hasard' or Moivre's 'Doctrine of Chances' one regrets that so much excellent mathematics should have been wasted on games most of which are wholly obsolete. Coriolus in his '[Théorie Mathématique des Effets du] Jeu de billard' (1835) fared better, for the game is still very much alive and its dynamical terrors unsubdued.”

Carl Barus

"The Mathematical Theory of the Top" (April 8, 1898)

Books , Game , Mathematics , Chance