Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Properties of Matter, Vol. 5
Under the title Properties of Matter the author has endeavoured to treat those branches of Physics which are not usually included in books on Light, Sound, Heat, or Electricity.
The book is intended for use in Secondary Schools, Technical Schools, and University Colleges, and includes all that is usually required for a Pass degree.
The treatment is experimental, and the use of advanced mathematics has been avoided; but the calculus has been used in places where the avoidance of it leads to tedious calculations.
It is hoped that this volume will fulfil a useful function by providing an elementary course of work on the Properties of Matter, from which the more intricate details and the more advanced theory are omitted.
The publishers are indebted to various firms for the loan of blocks for printing diagrams, as follows: - Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co. for Figs. 9, 45, 55, 64; Messrs. P. Harris & Co., Fig. 80; Messrs. Pye & Co., Figs. 10, 67 Messrs. Becker & Co., Figs. 16, 19, 65; Society for the Publication of Christian Knowledge (publishers of Prof. Boys's Soap Bubbles), Figs. 128, 140.
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