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ABSTRACT THIS is a text-book, of about intermediate standard, in which physical principles are illustrated more fully than usual by examples from everyday life. The author claims that he has
tried to encourage the student to think for himself, and to this end has used the device of mentioning phenomena without explaining them. It is doubtful whether this device is successful.
For example, the problem of a ping-pong ball supported on a jet of air (p. 135) is not one that the student should be expected to work out for himself ; nor is that of the concentration of
the scattering by a diffraction grating into one particular order (p. 353). Topics such as these are best omitted completely in an intermediate text-book. Physics For Students of Science and
Engineering. By Asst. Prof. William H. Michener. Pp. x+646. (New York : John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ; London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1947.) 25_s_. 6_d_. net. ARTICLE PDF RIGHTS AND
PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Physics. _Nature_ 162, 717 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162717a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 06 November 1948
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