(1) Experimental Mechanics and Physics (2) Elementary Physical Optics (3) Heat: A Manual for Technical and Industrial Students (4) A Synopsis of the Elementary Theory of Heat and Heat Engines (5) Elementary Principles of Electricity and Magnetism for Students in Engineering (6) Transport de Force (7) First Year Course in General Science: A Combined Text-book and Note-book

Abstract

(1) THE title of this little book is rather misleading. The use of the word “physics” suggests that the contents of the book comprise the various branches of physics, and not merely—as is actually the case—heat and a meagre treatment of a few of the properties of matter. These subjects occupy only one quarter of the volume, the remainder being devoted to mechanics. The treatment is very simple and is suitable as an introductory course. In this respect the book will no doubt serve its purpose as efficiently as many others of its class, although it exhibits no noteworthy advances in the mode of presentation of the subject. The frequent change of type is rather an unfortunate feature, and some of the diagrams are very badly drawn, notably a cube used to represent the measurement of volume, the perspective of which is in exactly the wrong sense.

(1) Experimental Mechanics and Physics.

By A. H. E. Norris. Pp. viii + 176. (London: Mills and Boon, Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. 6d.

(2) Elementary Physical Optics.

By W. E. Cross. Pp. 312. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.) Price 3s. 6d.

(3) Heat: A Manual for Technical and Industrial Students.

By J. A. Randall. Pp. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1913.) Price 6s. 6d. net.

(4) A Synopsis of the Elementary Theory of Heat and Heat Engines.

By J. Case. Pp. iii + 65. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) Price 2s. 6d. net.

(5) Elementary Principles of Electricity and Magnetism for Students in Engineering.

By Dr. R. H. Hough Dr. W. M. Boehm. Pp. vii + 233. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 6s.

(6) Transport de Force.

Calculs Techniques et Economiques des Lignes de Transport et de Distribution d'Energie Electrique. By C. Le Roy. Deuxime Partie. Pp. 143. (Paris: A Hermann et Fils, 1913.) Price 6 francs.

(7) First Year Course in General Science: A Combined Text-book and Note-book.

By E. A. Gardiner. Pp. vi + 113. (London: W. Heinemann, n.d.) Price 2s. 6d. net.