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AMERICAN introductory courses in college physics are offered to students whose needs and earlier training differ considerably from those of most students of the same age at English universities. Prof. Black has written his book to cover a one-year course for university students who have not previously studied the subject or have, at most, done the three-term physics course customary at many American schools. He has taken care to eliminate mathematical difficulties not essential to his exposition of particular physical principles. Nothing more than the simplest mathematical knowledge is assumed or needed. The book therefore is quite unlike the text-books used for advanced classes in English secondary schools or for pass degrees at universities; here it has become customary to assume that the student has already done a science course for three years, and that he has acquired or is acquiring a knowledge of more advanced algebra and calculus.
An Introductory Course in College Physics
By Prof. Newton Henry Black. Pp. ix + 714. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935.) 15s. net.
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Structure of the Alps. Nature 137, 343 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137343b0
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