Heat (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Heat The present work is intended for those who have read the elementary parts of the subject, as treated in "Sound, Light, and Heat, " or who are able at once to attack a more advanced work. It is an attempt to place the leading facts and principles of the subject before the student. The point of view of the writer is that of a teacher, and this will explain why certain parts are treated more elaborately than others, and why worked numerical examples occur so frequently in the text and at the end of each chapter. Such examples should not be merely copied, they are inserted because it is found that a carefully worked example proves of great use to the student, who naturally finds a difficulty in understanding the generalizations of a science. A fair selection of the experiments described should be performed by the student. The experiments selected will depend upon the apparatus available and the time at his disposal, they should be typical. A high form of accuracy is not required at this stage, it will be sufficient if he can clearly indicate the minor corrections that have been omitted, and how such corrections would affect the results. It is believed that the description of the experiments will enable any one to repeat them, to have gone into further detail would have made the work too bulky, and many details can only be mastered either by instruction in the laboratory or by the slow yet efficient method of trial and failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.