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WE do not as yet suffer from an excess of textbooks on atomic physics. As the authors remark, we have plenty of works “replete with equations and mathematical phraseology” designed for the use of specialists, and we have more than enough of works devoted to the uplift of the fireside reader. But there are signs that the flood is setting in. The present work is a series of critical studies of various aspects of atomic physics very fit to be put into the hands of an undergraduate student. An excellent picture of the state of physics in the late nineteenth century is followed by fourteen chapters which deal, in a manner designed to leave their readers wanting more, with the atomic nature of matter and electricity, the corpuscular nature of radiant energy, spectra, X-rays, radioactivity, molecular structure, relativity and astrophysics.
An Outline of Atomic Physics.
By Members of the Physics Staff of the University of Pittsburgh: Oswald H. Blackwood Elmer Hutchisson Thomas H. Osgood Arthur E. Ruark Wilfred N. St. Peter George A. Scott Archie G. Worthing. Pp. vii + 348. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1933.) 21s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 132, 560 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132560b0
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