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EACH exercise commences with references to certain school text-books, but, unfortunately for the British reader, these are all American works, and, so far as the reviewer knows, they are not used in any schools here. We are amused to find that metre scales are called metre “sticks” in the States. There is a good simple chapter on inertia, and a form of inertia balance is described. It seems to us a mistake to omit all experiments on velocity and acceleration because of their difficulty. Friction occurs in all real machines, and it ought to be studied in elementary works. The apparatus is generally of quite a simple character and very suitable for school use. Ap pendix A contains an extract from one of Boyle's papers in which he describes an instrument virtually the same as Nicholson's hydrometer, and the authors call attention to this in their description of that instrument. The book will prove very useful in conjunction with the text-books to which references are made.
A Laboratory Manual of Physics.
By H. Crew R. R. Tatnall Pp. xii + 230. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 5s.
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S., S. A Laboratory Manual of Physics . Nature 66, 4 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066004c0
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