Abstract
THE course of optics outlined here is one which has been developed for an advanced class at the postgraduate school of the United States Naval Academy. Some ninety experiments are described, in general of an advanced type and requiring more elaborate apparatus than is found in most teaching laboratories in Great Britain. Its value for general purposes would have been increased considerably if more photographs and perspective diagrams of apparatus had been given, although those present are excellent. In spite of these minor defects, which are indeed only apparent when it is put to a use other than that for which it was originally intended, the book should be of much value as a work of reference for technical students and the more advanced degree classes. Prof. Wagner insists upon the importance of geometrical optics.
Experimental Optics.
Prof
Albert F.
Wagner
. Pp. xii + 203. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1929.) 16s. net.
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Experimental Optics . Nature 126, 164 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126164d0
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