Abstract
THE student approaching the subject of heat must master principles which require a previous background of experiment, and at the same time learn to appreciate a variety of experimental methods domaning a prior understanding of theory. The teaoher's business is to make this cycle work irre-versrely, and Prof. LeRoy D. Weld's text-book, based on courses of university lectures given during the past thirty-five years, is skilfully arranged to this end. The text, describing a limited number of important experiments, is chiefly an explanation of principles. References for supplementary reading, mostly on modern experimental techniques, are given at the end of each chapter. These, leading the reader to range among selected American periodicals, might perhaps have been classified into groups, for it would have been useful to have the review articles and theoretical discussions distinguished from the purely experimental papers.
A Textbook of Heat
For Upperclassmen. By Prof. LeRoy D. Weld. Pp. x + 436. (New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 25s. net.
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N., G. A Textbook of Heat. Nature 164, 898 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164898a0
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