A LABORATORY COURSE IN PHYSICS
FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
By ROBERT A. MILLIKAN and HENRY G. GALE 12mo, flexible cloth, 134 pages, illustrated, 40 cents
This one-year course in physics has grown out of the experience of the authors in developing the work in physics at the School of Education of The University of Chicago, and in dealing with the physics instruction in affiliated high schools and academies.
The book is a simple, objective presentation of the subject as opposed to a formal and mathematical one. It is intended for the third-year high-school pupils and is therefore adapted in style and method of treatment to the needs of students between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. It especially emphasizes the historical and practical aspects of the subject and connects the study very intimately with facts of daily observation and experience.
The authors have made a careful distinction between the class of experiments which are essentially laboratory problems and those which belong more properly to the classroom and the lecture table. The former are grouped into a Laboratory Manual which is designed for use in connection with the text. The two books are not, however, organically connected, each being complete in itself.
All the experiments included in the work have been carefully chosen with reference to their usefulness as effective classroom demonstrations.