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THIS excellent book is intended mainly for students who are preparing for entrance scholarships to the universities, and the Higher School Certificate and University Intermediate examinations, while it also covers a lot of the ground necessary for an ordinary degree. One of the many good features of the book is the flexibility of the treatment given, for as the author says in his preface, “Each chapter gives a complete, though necessarily limited, discussion of its part of the subject”; this means that the chapters may be dealt with in any order to suit requirements, and though in the book the work on electrostatics is separated from that on current electricity by the long chapter on magnetism, the author does not suggest that this sequence should be rigidly adhered to.
Electricity and Magnetism for Students
By S. R. Humby. Pp. 319. (London: John Murray, 1939.) 6s. 6d.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1008 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451008c0
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