Abstract
THOSE who have to deal with large classes in practical physics know how difficult it is for the demonstrator to set and maintain the class going without some aid in the form of printed instructions, such as note-books or separate slips relating to each experiment. This plan is, however, looked upon with suspicion by many owing to the obvious danger that the work degenerates into mere mechanical operations, without any intelligent appreciation on the part of the pupil of what he is doing, and of the physical principles underlying the experiment. This danger seems to be almost entirely avoided in the volume before us.
A Laboratory Note-book of Physics.
By S. A. McDowall. Part i., pp. viii + 166. Part ii., pp. viii + 126. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s. 6d. net each part.
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O., G. A Laboratory Note-book of Physics . Nature 89, 317–318 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089317b0
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