Abstract
THIS book is intended to meet the wants of the same class of students as the author's “Heat for Advanced Students,” published three years ago. It gives a comprehensive account of the phenomena and laws of geometrical and physical optics, with a number of simple, illustrative experiments and examination questions. Special pains have been taken throughout, as in the author's “Heat,” to make all the explanations as simple as possible, so that the private student, who has not the advantage of a teacher's assistance in explaining his difficulties, should find the book particularly helpful. Advanced mathematical methods have been scrupulously avoided, and the calculus is rigidly excluded. This necessarily limits the scope of the work, but the author has found it possible to give a very good general idea of the more difficult parts of the subject and of comparatively advanced theories, such as Sellmeier's theory of dispersion, without making any extravagant demands on the mathematical knowledge of the student.
Light for Students.
By Edwin Edser, &c. Pp. viii + 579. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 6s.
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C., H. Light for Students . Nature 67, 341 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067341a0
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