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THE vector method is followed in this book, and the treatment which usually ends with the mechanical properties of matter is continued to cover the kinetic theory of gases using the virial, the Bohr atom, α-particle deflection, electrical oscillations and wave mechanics. The author's aim has been to make mechanics an introduction to advanced physics, in which he has succeeded admirably.
Physical Mechanics: an Intermediate Text for Students of the Physical Sciences.
Prof.
R. B.
Lindsay
By. (University Physics Series.) Pp. x + 436. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1933.) 21s. net.
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Physical Mechanics: an Intermediate Text for Students of the Physical Sciences . Nature 133, 668 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133668d0
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