Chap. 1. How Work is Measured by a Unit, both with and without
reference to a Unit of Time—Chap. 2. The Work of Living
Agents, the Influence of Friction, and introduces one of
the most beautiful Laws of Motion—Chap. 3. The principles
expounded in the first and second chapters are applied to the
Motion of Bodies—Chap. 4. The Transmission of Work by simple
Machines—Chap. 5. Useful Propositions and Rules.
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