Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Study of the Mathematics Used in a High School Course in Physics: Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Physics in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1913
During recent years there has been a marked decrease in the percentage of high school students taking physics. Many educators charge this loss principally to the mathematics required in the physics course. Hall says, The half-score of text-books in physics I have glanced over seem essentially quantitative, require great exactness, and are largely devoted to precise measurements, with too much and too early insistence on mathematics. He says further that the boy in his teens is in the popular science age; that he wants and needs great wholes, facts in profusion, but few formulae; that he wants demonstrative experiments without being bothered by equations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
