Abstract
IT may be well to remark at once that this is not a textbook of physics, but the first volume of a series of manuals designed solely for use in physical and electrical engineering laboratories. The present book is a general introduction to practical work in physics, and future volumes will be devoted to more advanced experiments. Altogether, eighty experiments are described, and are arranged in sections having the following succession: general physics, magnetism, electricity, heat, light, and sound. No serious attempt seems to have been made to connect the experiments in any particular order, so that, with few exceptions, they are independent of one another. A slight knowledge of physics is necessary before the student can understand and carry out the course of work described. This information may, however, be obtained from lectures given concurrently with the laboratory work, though the order of the practical course is not what most teachers follow in their lectures.
Elementary Physics.
By John Henderson (Edin.). Pp. 128. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895.)
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Elementary Physics. Nature 53, 101 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053101b0
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