1. Physics as a Science. From the evidence of our senses we infer the existence of a great
variety of bodies in the physical universe around us. By the use of our senses we also learn …

WHILE the belief seems to be quite common that the World War revolutionized the sciences
of physics and chemistry, it is a fact that the fundamental principles of these sciences were …

For several years, the author has given at Cornell University, and, occasionally, in summer
sessions, elsewhere, a course of lectures under the title" Introduction to Modern Physical …

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THE volume now presented must be regarded as the opening one of a series forming a Text-
Book on Physics, which the authors are preparing. The second volume, that on Sound, has …

ONLY about thirty-five years ago, during the nine-ties of the last century, knowledge of the
physical sciences had advanced to such a point that many of the foremost physicists and …

THE object and nature of this book is sufficiently explained in the introduction; here I will only
warn the reader who gets no further that, in spite of its title, it is not an elementary treatise on …

The present volume is not a new work but a revision of the edition of 1895. Since the first
appearance of the" Principles" in that year physical science has advanced with rapid strides …

In recent years we have witnessed a great develop-ment of physical science. The different
sections into which natural knowledge is, for the sake of convenience, divided, have grown …

DURING the past decade the teaching of Physics in high schools and universities has
undergone radical revision. The time-honored recitation method has gone out and the …