Author: George Vincent Wendell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780282691592

Excerpt from A Manual of Physical Measurements: For the Use of Students in Columbia College Preparing for Admission to the Schools of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry of Columbia University, in the City of New York The present laboratory manual is a revision of a manual entitled Physical Laboratory Notes issued by Professor Wendell in 1913. It has been revised to meet the especial needs of students in Columbia College who are preparing for admission to the graduate schools of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry of Columbia Uni versity, and for those majoring in the natural sciences and in particular in physics and chemistry. The exercises were selected to emphasize those important fundamental principles and con cepts in physics that are of vital importance to a clear under standing of the scientific and engineering courses that follow. They are, at the same time, well adapted to afi'ord an excellent means of training the student in the handling of delicate appar atus, and in the correct methods of observing and recording data, of estimating the accuracy of the measured quantities and of pre paring adequate reports, - matters of large importance in a cor rect experimental procedure in testing and in research labora tories. They also serve as an introduction to the leading books and tables of reference which are so indispensable in later work. 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.