Banach S. Mechanics

Warszawa - Wrozlaw, 1951My lectures in mechanics, given for many years at the Jan Kazimierz University and the Lwów Polytechnic Institute, consisted of the contents of this work.
I have limited myself to the mechanics of a system of material points and a rigid body. The material covered is suitable in general for university requirements, however, keeping in mind the needs of the students at the Polytechnic Institute, chapter VI which treats of the statics of a rigid body was worked out so that it could be accessible without a knowledge of kinematics and dynamics. It can be read immediately after chapter I when supplemented with several facts according to instructions included in the footnote on p. 231 Taking into account the requirements in mechanics at the Polytechnic Institute, I have also given in chapter VI certain information from engineering mechanics.
Stefan Banach. Lwów, January, 1938.