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ANYONE drawing up an elementary course of mechanical and physical experiments, and wishing for a manual to accompany it so as to make the preparation of a special volume unnecessary, could hardly do better than adapt his course to the manual before us. It contains just the short description which would otherwise be produced by some copying process for distribution to a class, or, failing this, would probably be written on a blackboard. That is to say, there is just enough description to indicate to a pupil what he is expected to do, and which would be copied by him into his notebook. A teacher will require to amplify the book verbally, either in the course of a short demonstration at the beginning of the class, or, if his lectures and the practical work run together very well, this might sometimes be done in the course of the lectures. The aim that Mr. Carmichael has had before him has been to state concisely the nature of the quantity to be measured in each experiment and the theory under lying the method suggested. Descriptions of instruments are entirely omitted, as the students are expected to have the apparatus given them by an instructor.
Physical Experiments.
By N. R. Carmichael. Pp. xi + 127; with diagrams. (Kingston, Ontario: R. Uglow and Co., 1904.)
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Physical Experiments . Nature 72, 126 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072126b0
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