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THE working of exercises forms a very important part of the course work of an engineering student. Many of the exercises required for the purpose of elucidating the subject of heat and heat engines can easily be made up; on the other hand, there are many important facts which can be illustrated only by exercises containing as data observations made during experiments. Teachers and students will welcome the book before us, because, among numerous other exercises, there is a large number giving experimental data on steam, gas, and oil engines, steam boilers and turbines, refrigerators, and calorimetric work. It is true that the best data for exercise working are those obtained by the student in experiments carried out by himself. Since most heat and heat-engine tests take a rather long time to carry out, the amount of information thus accumulated in the case of any one student can have only a limited scope, and the excellent exercises contained in the book will make a very useful supplement.
Examples in Heat and Heat Engines.
T.
Peel
By. Pp. iii + 104. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1919.) Price 5s. net.
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Examples in Heat and Heat Engines . Nature 104, 690 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104690c0
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