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UNIVERSITY teachers of physics who are not fettered by examination requirements and can plan their own courses will find this stimulating volume suggestive and helpful. Designed for a first-year course at Princeton, the book does not profess to cover the whole range of physics; but it deals with subjects related to the great theme of atomic and molecular constitution. It will therefore appeal to the chemist as well as to the eager student who wishes to plunge at once into the latest results of modern research on the properties of matter and of electricity. The advantages of the practical electrical units are so great that the authors have been led to adopt from the outset the M.K.S. (metre-kilogram-second) system of units.
Matter, Motion and Electricity
A Modern Approach to General Physics. By Henry De Wolf Smyth and Prof. Charles Wilbur Ufford. Pp. xiii + 648. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1939.) 25s.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 298 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145298b0
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