The Instruction Manual for the 4161 Slide Rule
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Illustration
- Contents ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 1-2
- Chapter I - MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION --------------------------------- pages 3-14
- 1. Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------- page 3
- 2. Reading the scales --------------------------------------------------------- pages 3-6
- 3. Accuracy of the slide rule -------------------------------------------------- pages 6-7
- 4. Definitions ----------------------------------------------------------------- page 7
- 5. Multiplication -------------------------------------------------------------- pages 7-9
- 6. Either Index may be used -------------------------------------------------- page 9
- 7. Division -------------------------------------------------------------------- pages 9-10
- 8. Simple applications, percentage, rates -------------------------------------- pages 10-12
- 9. Use of the scales DF and CF (folded scales) ------------------------------- pages 12-14
- Chapter II - THE PROPORTION PRINCIPLE AND COMBINED OPERATION pages 15-28
- 10. Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------- page 15
- 11. Use of Proportions ------------------------------------------------------- pages 15-19
- 12. Forming proportions from equations -------------------------------------- pages 19-20
- 13. Equivalent expressions of quality ----------------------------------------- pages 21-22
- 14. The CI (reciprocal) scale ------------------------------------------------- pages 22-23
- 15. Proportions involving the CI scale ---------------------------------------- pages 23-25
- 16. Combined multiplication and division ------------------------------------- pages 25-28
- Chapter III - SUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS, CUBES AND CUBE ROOT --- pages 29-39
- 17. Squares ----------------------------------------------------------------- page 29
- 18. Square roots ------------------------------------------------------------ pages 29-31
- 19. Evaluation of simple expressions containing square roots and squares ---- pages 31-32
- 20. Combined operations involving square roots and squares ---------------- pages 33-34
- 21. Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------ page 35
- 22. Cube roots ------------------------------------------------------------- pages 35-36
- 23. Applications of Proportions --------------------------------------------- pages 36-39
- 24. The L scale ------------------------------------------------------------- page 39
- Chapter IV - TRIGONOMETERY ------------------------------------------------ pages 40-73
- 25. Some important fromulas from plane trigonometry ----------------------- pages 40-41
- 26. The S (Sine) and ST (Sine Tangent) scales ------------------------------ pages 41-44
- 27. Simple operations involving the S and ST scales ------------------------- pages 44-46
- 28. Law of sines applied to solve a triangle ---------------------------------- pages 46-48
- 29. Short cut in solving a triangle -------------------------------------------- pages 48-49
- 30. The T (Tangent) Scale -------------------------------------------------- pages 50-51
- 31. The law of sines applied to right triangles with two legs given ------------ pages 52-53
- 32. Solution of a triangle for which two sides and the included angle are given pages 54-56
- 33. Law of cosigns applied to solve triangles for which three sides are given - pages 56-58
- 34. Law of sines applied to oblique triangles, continued. The ambigous case - pages 58-59
- 35. Combined operations --------------------------------------------------- pages 59-61
- 36. Relations between radians and degrees --------------------------------- page 62
- 37. Trigometric functions of small angles ------------------------------------ page 63-64
- 38. Summary --------------------------------------------------------------- page 65
- 39. Miscellaneous Excercises ----------------------------------------------- page 66
- 40. Applications involving vectors ------------------------------------------- pages 66-69
- 41. Applications ------------------------------------------------------------ pages 70-72
- 42. Miscellaneous Excercises ----------------------------------------------- page 72-73
- Chapter VI - LOGARITHMS AND THE SLIDE RULE -------------------------- pages 74-81
- 43. Construction of the D scale --------------------------------------------- pages 74-75
- 44. Accuracy --------------------------------------------------------------- page 75
- 45. Multiplication and division ----------------------------------------------- pages 75-76
- 46. The inverted scales ------------------------------------------------------ pages 76-77
- 47. The A scale, and the K scale -------------------------------------------- pages 77-78
- 48. The T (Tangent) Scale -------------------------------------------------- pages 78-81
- 49. Application ------------------------------------------------------------- page 81
- HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE SLIDE RULE ---------------------------------- pages 82-84
- ANSWERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- pages 85-90
- INDEX --------------------------------------------------------------------------- pages 91-92
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