Author: E. H. Barton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781330283455

Excerpt from An Introduction to Practical Physics: For Colleges and Schools This little work is intended for students beginning Practical Physics, whether in the upper forms of schools, or at University or Technical Colleges. Although not assuming any previous conversance with the subject, it provides more than sufficient for the Intermediate Examination for degrees in Pure Science or Engineering, and will be found suitable also for University Scholarship Candidates. It comprises all the various branches of elementary physics, and has been written with a view to the use of apparatus which is either of standard type or of simple forms easily provided in any laboratory. Experience has shown that some points are frequent stumbling-blocks to certain classes of students, and not less so when they are unduly laboured by printed instructions. These are accordingly indicated in the text as possibly needing oral elucidation by the demonstrator. It is thus hoped that the letterpress is thereby reduced to a minimum without any loss of essential clearness. At the head of each experiment stands a list of apparatus needed. This facilitates its setting out by the assistant, and serves to show the student whether he has what he needs. Although the book is divided into seven parts, each experiment is identified by its number simply, since these numbers run consecutively through the book. Each experiment contains an explicit statement of the exercises to be performed by the student and of the form in which his results should be presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.