A High School Course in Physics (Classic Reprint)

I ts development has resulted from the fact that its pursuit has successfully met human needs. Hence it is believed that the presentation of the subject in the secondary school should be the expansion of the everyday life of the pupil into the broader experience and observation of those whose lives have been devoted to the study. Human activity and progress, therefore, should be the teachers guiding principle, and the bearing of each phenomenon and law on the interests of mankind should be clearly disclosed and emphasized. The author of this book has accordingly endeavored to give great prominence to facts of common observation in the derivation of physical laws, and, further, has attempted to point out plainly the service that has been afforded mankind by a knowledge of natures laws. No textbook, however, can take the place of the skilled teacher in showing clearly the relation of physical phenomena to human activities, or in the selection of illustrative examples within the range of observation of his pupils. Large portions of the subject-matter of Physics deal with knowledge already possessed by a pupil of high-school age, and nothing is of more appealing interest to him than the feeling that this information is to be made of some value. By recalling phenomena well within the acquaintance of the pupil and supplementing them with demonstrative experiments, the way is easily paved to the deduction and interpretation of general principles. In the presentation of such experiments, the author has described as simple and inexpensive apparatus as he has found to be consistent with satisfactory results. No effort has been spared to give the teacher and pupil every possible assistance.
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