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ASSUMING that books consisting of a series of questions with their answers collected together at the end supply a legitimate want and do a real service in the cause of scientific education, Dr. Young's “Questions on Physics” is a valuable addition to those already existing. It is as free as it is possible to make such a book from the charge of encouraging “cram,” as the questions are many of them not adapted to rule-of-thumb methods of solution. Many of them also are descriptive of some instrument or principle, in which case, of course, answers are not given. The author takes in succession mechanics, acoustics, heat, magnetism, electricity, and optics. After the answers he gives a series of tables which, will be found useful. There are no questions on moment of inertia, or on the ballistic galvanometer. One sentence—the last part of question 155—may vex the student: “Calculate the focal length of a concave lens which gives a magnification of three diameters at a distance of three inches.”
Questions on Physics.
By Sydney Young, Lecturer on Chemistry, and Tutorial Lecturer on Physics in the University College, Bristol. (London: Rivingtons, 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 36, 293 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036293a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036293a0