Key Information
Reference code
K/PP71/1
Title
Notebook, 1860-1865, including exam questions for students on mechanics and geometry
Date(s)
- Oct - 1865 (Creation)
- Feb (Creation)
- 1860 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Manuscript notebook compiled by James Clerk Maxwell, Professor of Natural Philosophy, King's College London, comprising exam questions for students of King's, mainly on aspects of mechanics and geometry including efficiency, weight, the resolution of forces, pressure, problems involving pulleys and methods of calculating velocity, with sketches, tables of data and rough mathematical calculations. 1 volume