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IN the last thirty years this valuable set of tables has become so indispensable in the physics laboratory that every laboratory boy knows what to get when asked for “Kaye and Laby ”. If authors' names alone were to be used, accuracy would demand that far more than two be mentioned, for the original authors adopted the wise policy of securing the help of many others. As this edition, the ninth, was passing through the press, Dr. Kaye died and the Physics Department of the National Physical Laboratory gave a final inspection to the text and prepared the index. Prof. Laby, who took no part in the preparation of the eighth edition, has rewritten for the present edition the tables dealing with units and dimensions, electrical units, conversion factors, mechanical equivalent of heat, velocity of light, general and atomic constants, a-rays, radioactivity, isotopes and arrangement of electrons in atoms. In one section the tables are ahead of time, because they include the electrical units originally proposed for adoption as “ absolute ” from January 1, 1940, by the International Electro-technical Commission. The War upset the plan for general adoption.
Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants
And some Mathematical Functions. By Dr. G. W. C. Kaye and Prof. T. H. Laby. Ninth edition. Pp. vii + 181. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 18s. net.
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G., W. [Book Reviews]. Nature 149, 453 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149453b0
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