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THE headmaster of a secondary school has to solve the problem of providing a satisfactory course of genera! science for the average pupil (including the budding specialist in language or history) along with a course which will equip a student of science for an advanced course in chemistry and physics. The chemistry of air and water, so far as it is necessary for the study of geography and botany, is taught in most schools in Great Britain to boys and girls alike, and presents no great difficulty; but the subject of physics, which is subdivided by examining bodies into three heads, becomes a Cerberus guarding the gate of a sound general education. To pass an examination either in heat, light, and sound, or in mechanics, or in electricity and magnetism may give admittance to the gate of the School Certificate, but that is not quite the same thing.. It is undesirable that any boy should leave school without an acquaintance with the main facts of all three;, and this is essential to the specialist in science.
Everyday Physics.
By H. E. Hadley. Pp. viii + 474 + 4 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 6s. 6d.
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Everyday Physics. Nature 114, 820–821 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114820b0
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