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THIS rather high-priced book, which is beautifully bound and produced, is a laboratory manual not apparently designed to cover any special examination course, but it appears to be quite suitable for students of post-matriculation standard. All branches of physics are represented in the course (though the section on sound is rather thin), and if a student has the time and the facility to deal adequately with the point raised in each experiment, the course should prove a most valuable one. The book is not merely a compilation of directions for performing experiments, but it includes also the theory underlying each experiment, a description of the apparatus needed, and suggestive questions and problems. An especial emphasis is quite rightly placed upon the evaluation of errors involved in the various experiments, and the whole course certainly encourages a student to appreciate the possibilities and limitations of the scientific spirit and method of investigation.
Experimental College Physics: a Laboratory Manual
By Prof. M. W. White. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 383. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 19s.
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Experimental College Physics: a Laboratory Manual. Nature 147, 728 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147728c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147728c0