Abstract
THIS is an elementary text-book intended to cover the syllabus of Light and Heat for the London Matriculation Examination. Being written more in the form of notes than as an ordinary book, it will be of considerable service for examination-purposes. Many of the definitions, however, are far from concise, and many phenomena which admit of easy explanation are left unexplained. On p. 98 we are told that the specific heats of gases are inversely proportional to the square roots of their densities, whereas they are in inverse proportion to their densities; had a simple explanation of this relation been given, the mistake would not have occurred. The important subject of thermo-dynamics is disposed of in four pages at the end of the book: this is not as it ought to be, seeing that the relation between heat and work often enters into previous discussions, and is, moreover, the basis of the modern theory of heat.
Light and Heat.
By the Rev. F. W. Aveling (London: Relfe Bros., 1887.)
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F., A. Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 176 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037176a0
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