E831 -- De oscillationibus annulorum elasticorum
(English Translation of Title)
Summary:
(based on C. Truesdell's An idiot's fugitive essays on science: methods, criticisms, training,
circumstances)
Euler presents Young's modulus of linear elasticity. With this in hand, he derives the forumla
M = EI/r for the bending moment acting on a beam.
Publication:
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Originally published in Opera Postuma 2, 1862, pp. 129-131
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 11, pp. 378 - 383
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