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THERE are some books that can be reviewed at first reading, others that require only a glance. But sometimes the value of a book can only be appreciated when it has been used for some time, and then comes to be appreciated more and more. The author modestly claims “Demonstration Experiments in Physics” as a ‘cookbook’ for teachers of physics, and in its 500-odd pages it certainly contains an enormous variety of recipes. Among them we find many already familiar to teachers of physics in Great Britain, but the majority are new, or improved variants of existing experiments. They cover all branches of physics and all stages of lectures; but, naturally for demonstration experiments, the general emphasis is on the first and second years’ lectures. Here dramatic nature of the action and simplicity of construction are the chief requirements. The reviewer can vouch for the feasibility of construction and the satisfactory performance of a considerable number of the experiments in this book.
Demonstration Experiments in Physics
(Prepared under the Auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers.) Edited by Prof. Richard Manliffe Sutton. Pp. viii + 545. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1938.) 25s. net.
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Physics. Nature 144, 197 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144197a0
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