Abstract
THIS book, which is of intermediate examination standard, deals very ably with those branches of physics that border on applied mathematics, and which present considerable difficulty to elementary students. The subject offers little scope for novelty oi treatment, but has nevertheless been presented in an interesting manner, whilst the book also includes sections on various important branches such as rotational motion and gravitation, which are often omitted, although with little justification. The chapter on pumps has good accounts of the modern Hyvac pump and the McLeod gauge, and the chapter on the properties of matter a few paragraphs on diffusion, osmosis, and absorption of gases. One wishes that there were more equally good elementary texts in existence.
Intermediate Dynamics and Properties of Matter.
Dr.
R. A.
Houstoun
. Pp. ix + 139. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 3s. 6d
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Intermediate Dynamics and Properties of Matter . Nature 126, 199 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126199d0
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