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THIS volume is intended as a two-year course to cover the work necessary for students taking biology in the General Schools Examination, the work to be done in the two years preceding the examination year. The chemistry portion is relatively thin, for the authors point out that little subject matter is required and much of this can be taught in its proper context in the biology course. In the physics portion, on p. 17, the student is told that inertia is a property ; later he is told that mass is a quantity of matter ; he will probably be a little fogged when, immediately after this, he reads that “mass and inertia are really the same thing”, even though there is a qualifying note. Not everyone will agree that the section on light should start with the spectrum, to be followed by reflexion and refraction, and one wonders why the experimental methods illustrating laws and principles are placed all together towards the ends of the chapters instead of putting them in their proper place in the text.
Elementary Physics and Chemistry: for Students of Biology
By Dr. E. A. Woodall E. C. Denne. Pp. 224. (London, Bombay and Sydney: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 4s. 6d.
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Elementary Physics and Chemistry: for Students of Biology. Nature 149, 425 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149425c0
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