(1) Elementary Engineering Science (2) Engineering Science (3) Further Mechanics and Hydrostatics (4) Physics for Technical Students: (5) Physics in Industry

Abstract

“SCIENCE increases the power of the rulers, giving them control over the sources of modern life. A wise nation, a people who intended to remain free would get to know all about science too”. These words recently appeared as a random note in a daily newspaper and if there is one branch of science to which, in particular, they could be taken to refer, that branch is physics, with its many practical applications. Each of the books quoted above deals with one or more aspects of applied physics, and each, in its way, aims at promoting its study. Their perusal leaves a strong impression of the stultifying influence of the examination system—teachers, students and writers being cabined, cribbed, and confined within the limits of the syllabus chosen.

(1) Elementary Engineering Science

By Dr. Arthur Morley Dr. Edward Hughes. Pp. xi + 290. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 3s. 6d.

(2) Engineering Science

By H. B. Brown A. J. Bryant. Vol. 1: Mechanics and Hydrostatics. Pp. xv + 403. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 5s.

(3) Further Mechanics and Hydrostatics

By A. W. Siddons K. S. Snell N. R. C. Dockeray. Pp. viii + 184. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1937.) 3s. 6d.

(4) Physics for Technical Students:

Mechanics and Heat. By Prof. W. B. Anderson. Third edition. Pp. ix + 378. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1937.) 15s.

(5) Physics in Industry

By Karl T. Compton E. C. Sullivan Zay Jeffries E. Q. Adams Paul D. Foote J. P. Den Hartog John Ely Burchard Oliver E. Buckley Clark B. Millikan Joseph Slepian Homer L. Dodge A. R. Olpin. Pp. xiv + 290. (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1937.) 1.50 dollars.