Experimnts in Physics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Experimnts in Physics

The collection of experiments printed in this book has been arranged and modified to meet the demands of a particular elementary course in laboratory physics at Cornell University and is therefore not published.

The laboratory course for which this manual is intended as a hand-book supplements a lecture course and also a recitation course in general physics in which the text used serves as a general reference for the theory on which the experiments are based.

For the most part the experiments, selected from many sources, have been used in the work for several years. The directions being type written or mimeographed have been changed from time to time as was deemed necessary. Graphical as well as numerical methods are insisted on. Occasional notes and explanations are given, and forms are many times suggested for tabulating data and results. In some cases no suggestions for tabulation are given in order that the student may show what he can do for himself.

At the end of the book will be found a list of useful tables in Watson's Physics. There are also tables of physical constants, useful numbers, logarithms and natural trigonometrical functions.

I take this occasion to thank the many who have aided in one way or another to make it possible to print the book and especially to give thanks to Professor H. J. Rogers of Leland Stanford University who first developed the course, and to Mr. Willard J. Fisher, instructor in Physics at Cornell University, for many valuable suggestions and aid in getting out the work.

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