(1) Cours de Physique (2) Traité de Physique (3) Preliminary Practical Science Some Fundamental Principles of Physical Science, with their Practical Applications (4) Outlines of Applied Physics (5) Preliminary Practical Physics (6) A School Electricity (7) Elementary Geometrical Optics

Abstract

(1) AS judged by the size of the first two books of the “Cours de Physique,” which Prof. Rothe is writing, the whole work will be of very considerable magnitude. According to the author's foreword, these two books represent the introduction only to the course itself, which is intended for students who have already studied physics, and primarily for those who are proceeding to technical institutes. In several ways this introduction is rather remarkable. The subjects covered in the first book are (i) units, and their transformation from one syjstem to another; (ii) the principle of similitude in physics; and (iii) methods of measuring the fundamental physical quantities, and the errors involved. In the second book, the statics of fluids and the experimental measurement of densities and pressures are dealt with. There is, perhaps, too little stress laid upon theory, but there can be no doubt that the detailed descriptions of the methods of measurement with great precision, together with the diagrams illustrating these methods, are in every way excellent.

(1) Cours de Physique.

By Prof. E. Roth. Pp. vi + 183. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1914.) Price 6.50 francs.

(2) Trait de Physique.

By Prof. O. D. Chwolson. Translated by E. Davaux. Pp. vi + 266. (Paris: A Hermann et Fils, 1914.) Price 9 francs.

(3) Preliminary Practical Science. Some Fundamental Principles of Physical Science, with their Practical Applications.

By H. Stanley. Pp. viii + 128. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. 6d.

(4) Outlines of Applied Physics.

By H. Stanley. Pp. viii + 227. (London: Mills and Boon, Ltd., 1914.) Price 2s. 6d.

(5) Preliminary Practical Physics.

Part ii. Heat. By A. E. Lyster. Pp. vii + 73. (Dublin: Educational Co. of Ireland, 1914.) Price 7d. net.

(6) A School Electricity.

By C. J. L. Wagstaff. Pp. xi + 250. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1914.) Price 5s. net.

(7) Elementary Geometrical Optics.

By A. S. Ramsey. Pp. xi + 173. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1914.) Price 6s.