Physics Mechanics And Heat A Tutorial And Lab Experiments

Author : William Suddards Franklin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330185902
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Mechanics and Heat written by William Suddards Franklin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mechanics and Heat: A Text Book for Colleges and Technical Schools The authors have had a very definite point of view in the preparation of this elementary treatise on Mechanics and Heat, and they assume that those to whom this preface is addressed have read their introductory chapter, especially the section entitled The Science of Physics. The most important function of the teacher of physics is to build the logical and mechanical structure of the science; the logical structure mainly by lecture and recitation work including a great deal of practice by the student in numerical calculation, and the mechanical structure by laboratory work. These two phases of physics study should run along together. This text, however, is intended as a basis for the work of the class-room. In their experience, the authors have come to recognize four chief difficulties in the teaching of elementary physics, as follows: One difficulty is that the native sense of most men is incapable, without stimulation and direction, of supplying the material upon which the logical structure of the science is intended to operate. It is necessary to direct the student's attention to many familiar things and to present in the class-room a great many experimental demonstrations of presumably familiar phenomena. A second difficulty is that the human mind, intuitively habituated as it is to consider the important practical affairs of life, can hardly be turned to that minute consideration of apparently insignificant details which is so necessary in the scientific handling even of the most distinctly practical problems. A third difficulty, which indeed runs through the entire front-of-progress of the human understanding, is that mind-stuff, which has been developed as correlative to certain aspects of our ancestral environment, must be rehabilitated in entirely new relations ?n fitting a man for the conditions of civilized life. 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.