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PROF. HULL has written a most interesting volume giving an account of modern physics suitable for an American college student in his second year. He has been successful in providing a book of an elementary character which may be recommended to other readers wishing for an up-to-date account of recent marvellous developments. It is not a ‘popular’ book in the sense that mathematical operations have been avoided altogether, but the mathematical difficulties have been reduced to a minimum. The properties of atoms, electrons and photons, and the relations between them are described in a stimulating way. Such subjects as cosmic rays and transmutation of the elements, and even such abstruse questions as the Schrodinger equation and the uncertainty principle are dealt with.
An Elementary Survey of Modern Physics
By Prof. G. F. Hull. Pp. xxiv + 457. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936.) 20s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 138, 952 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138952d0
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