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THIS book contains some 470 questions and examples in elementary physics, selected from the various papers set by the author for the examinations of the College of Preceptors. The questions are arranged under the four sections, sound, light, heat, and electricity and magnetism, and are further subdivided in each section into groups of five or six, with the suggestion that each group should form the subject of an ordinary school lesson. Problems involving a knowledge of mathematics beyond elementary arithmetic and geometry are avoided; in other respects the general standard of the questions is about that of the advanced stage of the Science and Art Department's examinations. The questions are well selected, and free from ambiguity or repetition. We notice under Heat, ix., I, the question: “In the process of graduating a thermometer, why must the freezing-point be determined before the boiling-point?” This is the order of operations as usually given in the text-books, but it has been shown in the elaborate report of the Bureau des Poids et Mesures that the interval between the freezing and boiling points is most constant when the freezing-point is determined as soon as possible after the boiling-point.
Questions and Examples on Elementary Experimental Physics.
By Benjamin Lœwy. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.)
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H., H. Our Book Shelf . Nature 39, 247 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039247a0
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