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Applied Mathematics Kits
The School
Mathematics Project
started in the 1960s, and brought
modern ideas — modern for schools, that is —
into the curriculum, introducing
pupils to mathematical structure as
evident in (I believe)
sets, graphs, geometric symmetry groups, and
logic circuits. But
to make room for these, other topics
had to go. What follows is my conversion into
HTML: the original, which I
came across last night,
was printed with the same fonts and layout
as an A-level, the exam taken
before leaving school at 17.
Special Advertisement
APPLIED MATHEMATICS KITS
As a result of recent reconstruction,
the School Mathematics Project has a
large amount of material for disposal
at reduced prices, and offers to
interested readers the following
SUPERB SURPLUS KITS IN
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
STANDARD KIT
includes
- 1 uniform ladder, complete with rough ground
and smooth wall
- 1 hemispherical bowl of radius a, supplied together with
- 1 uniform rod, of length 2a . sin θ, with perfectly
rough ends
- 2 particles, connected by a light inextensible string
- 2 rigid, smooth, incompressible, and perfectly
elastic spheres of masses m and em (masses M and
eM
can be supplied, if preferred).
- 1 hank uniformly flexible string
- 1 set assorted frictionless massless pulleys, in
uniform box, guaranteed not to influence acceleration.
SPECIAL "DE LUXE" KIT
includes, in addition,
- 1 rigid body, complete with axis, of moment of inertia I
(Moments of inertia A, B, and C can be supplied at
slight extra charge)
- 1 isoceles wedge with different coefficients of friction
on all three faces, complete with pulley at apex (a
connoisseur's item)
- 1 bottle of resisting medium, capable of extending
to approximately 550gt/2240k feet.
- n + 1 bricks, ready stacked in a pile with a uniform
overlap.
The whole ready packed in a perfectly rough
hollow sphere of radius r and negligible thickness.
Price a + bx, where a and b are constants and
x is the
distance from the orchard at Woolsthorpe, Lincs.
Sherborne School | H.
M. Cundy et al |