Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Physical Laboratory Experiments for Engineering Students, Vol. 1: Mechanics, Sound, Heat, and Light
The material in this volume was prepared for the use of sophomore students in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. All of these students are candidates for engineering degrees and most of them, when they entered as freshmen, had pursued courses in laboratory physics in the high schools of Greater New York, which are generally supplied with superior laboratory equipments. The book comprises thirty exercises, and the performance of each is designed to occupy three hours of the student's time. The course, therefore, covers three hours per week for two semesters. Each experiment has been chosen because of its close connection with engineering work, and in many cases the theoretical result may be calculated from the constants of the apparatus with which that result obtained by experiment may readily be compared. As these two results approach to an equality the student gains confidence in the apparatus, confidence in the theory, and confidence in himself. Apparatus of engineering design has been chosen for each exercise so that the student may rely upon getting the same result under the same conditions, and the results obtained by different students are directly comparable with each other. Each exercise is self-contained and assumes a knowledge on the part of the student of the subject matter as treated in courses on college physics. College Physics by Reed and Guthe is the text used at the Polytechnic. The additional theory necessary for a thorough understanding of an exercise is suggestively given with a view to inspiring the student to think and to supply the gaps.
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