Abstract
FROM the point of view of the teacher and the student, one can thoroughly recommend this book. It is impossible to proceed far in the study of electricity without clear conceptions of potential and potential difference. The author introduces these terms at an early stage and points out their analogy to the corresponding terms in a gravitational field of force. This is a distinct improvement on the unsatisfactory analogies to hydrostatic phenomena usually employed. The interposition of historical descriptions in the text, although they are of general interest, sometimes leads to considerable breaks in the continuity of the argument. They are therefore, at least in the chapters necessary for examination purposes, relegated to collected historical notes given at the ends of the chapters.
A Class Book of Magnetism and Electricity
By H. E. Hadley. Pp. x + 512. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 6s. 6d.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
A Class Book of Magnetism and Electricity. Nature 137, 477 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137477c0
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137477c0