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THIS volume, completing a series of text-books, preserves the almost unique character of its complementary numbers in presenting, in a setting usually associated with an advanced treatise, an encyclopaedic elementary survey of atomic physics, the experimental side predominating in range rather than in detail, with a limited amount of mathematics simplified to the extreme. The order and scope may be indicated in the broadest terms as an exhaustive subdivision of the general chapter headings: electrical structure of matter; the nucleus; light and matter; waves and corpuscles; spectral lines and the structure of atoms; molecular structure (and spectra); structure of solids and liquids; electrodynamics of moving media; matter and energy in the universe.
A Textbook of Physics
By E. Grimsehl. Edited by Dr. R. Tomaschek. Authorized translation from the seventh German edition by Dr. L. A. Woodward. Vol. 5: Physics of the Atom. Pp. xiii + 474. (London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1935.) 17s. 6d. net.
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B., N. Physics. Nature 137, 449–450 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137449d0
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