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THE author is to be congratulated on the production of an original and stimulating work which amply justifies the study of physics as a cultural subject. The treatment is based on the doctrine of energy, and, while it is quite elementary, making very little appeal to mathematics, it is closely reasoned, alive and in touch with reality, and calculated to keep the reader's mind constantly on the stretch. The fifty-seven chapters into which the book is divided cover very thoroughly the whole field of elementary physics, and at every step of his progress the reader may test his knowledge by means of well-selected quantitative examples and ingeniously devised topics for discussion.
Physics for College Students:
an Introduction to the Study of the Physical Sciences. By Prof. A. A. Knowlton. Second edition. Pp. xxi + 623. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1935.) 21s. net.
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F., A. Physics for College Students. Nature 136, 972 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136972b0
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