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THE author states in his preface that this book is intended for students of physics who have placed the higher school certificate examination behind them and are proceeding to university scholarships or degrees, and there is no doubt that he has succeeded in producing one ideally suited for them. Much care and thought have obviously been given to the elucidation of the more difficult points in the theory of electricity and magnetism which are so often passed over in silence. The opening synopses of the histories of electricity and magnetism are likely to be very helpful to those students who might otherwise be worried by our modern conventions and order of presentation of the subjects.
Electricity, Magnetism and Modern Physics
A Textbook for the use of Scholarship Candidates and University Students. By Dr. G. T. P. Tarrant. (Being Vol. 2 of Physics.) (Dent‘s Modern Science Series.) Pp. xii + 468. (London : J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1948.) 15s.
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BATES, L. Electricity, Magnetism and Modern Physics. Nature 161, 829 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161829b0
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