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THIS text is well suited to the needs of first-year honours students in physics and to students taking a graduate course in engineering. Experimental methods are cut down to the shortest possible presentation consistent with clearness, and modern methods are in most instances selected. Thus, the description of the time-honoured experiments of Joule and of Rowlands for the determination of J is cut down to a few words, and Callendar and Barnes, Jaeger and Steinwehr, and Laby and Hercus appear in their place. Forbes and Angstrom disappear, and a short account of the modern simple methods for conductivity determinations reigns instead.
Heat and Thermodynamics
An Intermediate Textbook for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. By Prof. Mark W. Zemansky. Pp. xii + 388. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1937.) 24s.
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Physics. Nature 144, 196–197 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144196d0
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