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THE ground covered by this text-book comprises the fundamental properties of solids, liquids, and gases; force, work, and energy; and the elementary principles of heat, including a chapter on the mechanical equivalent of heat and the fundamentals of the heat engine. The author in his preface states that he has “attempted to present some essential facts of elementary physics as briefly and straightforwardly as possible, without any pedantry or insistence on details of no practical importance.” While the book contains nothing novel, the matter is readable and the statements are clear and concise. Formulae and mathematical equations have been avoided to a large extent. There is little in the text to make it peculiarly applicable to engineering students, and compared with some introductory books of physics which have appeared in recent years, the treatment is somewhat sparse. A few chapters are provided with numerical exercises, but no answers are appended. The hook is expensive considering the amount of matter it contains.
Elementary Physics for Engineers: An Elementary Text Book for First Year Students taking an Engineering Course in a Technical Institution.
By J. Paley Yorke. Pp. viii + 165. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916.) Price 4s. net.
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Elementary Physics for Engineers: An Elementary Text Book for First Year Students taking an Engineering Course in a Technical Institution . Nature 99, 343 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099343c0
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