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THIS book is intended for use by boys of between twelve and fourteen years of age who have just completed the elementary-school course and are passing to a more advanced curriculum such as is provided in the junior technical, central, or continuation school. It may suit the courses in some of these institutions, but if this is to be the only kind of instruction in physics during the first year of study, the diet cannot be said to be too stimulating. The work is concerned almost entirely with the use of simple measuring instruments. The description of three methods of verifying “Pythagoras,” of four ways of measuring the weight of a cubic centimetre of water, and of no fewer than eleven experiments to show that air exerts pressure indicates too much devotion to completeness of detail at the expense of time which could be spent more profitably in giving the pupils glimpses at the marvels of Nature by which they are surrounded.
A First Year Physics for Junior Technical Schools.
G. W.
Farmer
By. With an Introduction by S. C. Laws. Pp. x + 183. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920.) Price 4s. 6d.
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A First Year Physics for Junior Technical Schools . Nature 105, 229 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105229b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105229b0