Grimsehls Lehrbuch der Physik

Abstract

THE new edition of “Grimsehl” needs no lengthy introduction to students of physical science. The present volume (mechanics, heat and sound) preserves its strictly elementary character ?insisting on the view that physics is primarily an experimental science, and confining mathematical expositions to the very simplest applications of the infinitesimal calculus. Within these limits, the exposition of the subject-matter is as clear and interesting as ever, and the editor is to be congratulated on having covered a very wide ground without the slightest tendency to scrap-piness in treatment. The treatment is, generally, classical, and, so far as gross mechanics is concerned, the editor has judiciously introduced matter which has not yet come within the compass of the ideas of the ordinary compiler of text-books ?the section on sound, for example, deals briefly with threshold values, and we find diagrams giving Lautstdrke in Phon.

Grimsehls Lehrbuch der Physik:

zum Gebrauch beim Unterreicht, neben Akademischen Vorlesungen und zum Selbststudium Neubearbeitet von Prof. Dr. R. Tomaschek. Band 1: Mechanik, Wärmelehre, Akustik. Neunte Auflage. Pp. vii + 674. (Leipzig und Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1936.) 19.80 gold marks.