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THIS book is intended for young people from, sixteen to eighteen years of age, and consequently deals with physics of an elementary standard. It is for, use in the classroom rather than in the laboratory, and details of practical work have been omitted; whilst considerable stress is laid on ample illustration by means of lecture experiments. There are some diagrams, but no pictures of apparatus or phenomena; these the student is to draw for himself from what he sees. Much of the text is written in a spirit of suggestion or question, with the view of making the student think and reason for himself. In the first section of the book there is very little about kinetics, and ideas concerning force are gained from weight. Newton's laws are not stated formally, and work is not discussed until late in the section on heat.
Physics: a Text-book for Secondary Schools.
By Prof. Frederick Slate. Pp. xxi + 414. (New York: the Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 6s.
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S., S. Physics: a Text-book for Secondary Schools . Nature 66, 575 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066575a0
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