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THIS is, in some ways, a remarkable book. The authors are convinced that the teaching of physics by way of a series of separated and more or less watertight courses prevents a student from under standing the unity of physics. Moreover, many problems concerning the structure of matter are necessarily discussed in terms of wave mechanics, and a knowledge of wave mechanics again demands a thorough grounding in classical physics. The authors, therefore, with amazing courage, have endeavoured to build up, in the compass of less than six hundred pages, a consistent and com prehensive picture of modern theoretical physics which shall be something more than a collection of disjointed chapters on unrelated topics.
Introduction to Theoretical Physics.
By Prof. John C. Slater Prof. Nathaniel H. Frank. (International Series in Physics.) Pp. xx + 576. (NewYork: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-HillPublishingCo.,Ltd., 1933.) 30s. net.
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F., A. Physics. Nature 133, 372 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133372b0
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