Author: Harold Whiting

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Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781332333943

Excerpt from Course of Experiments in Physical Measurement, Vol. 1 of 4: Density, Heat, Light, and Sound This book is intended to aid in the preparation of students for courses in civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering, and for advanced work in all branches of science requiring the use of accurate methods and instruments of precision. To this end, the course of experiments described, unlike that contained in most manuals published in this country, is exclusively devoted to quantitative physical determinations. Comparatively little use is made of the ordinary experimental demonstrations of well-known physical laws and principles, which, it is believed, are better suited to the lecture-room than to the laboratory. Most of the experiments consist in the determination of magnitudes wholly unknown to the students, and are made with instruments which they themselves have tested, in order that they may learn to depend upon their own observations. Attention has been paid throughout this book to the general methods which underlie all physical measurement, rather than to the special devices by which particular difficulties are overcome. 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.