A Text-Book of Physics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Physics

The following account of the phenomena of Sound and of the theory connecting them together forms one part only of a Text-Book of Physics which the authors are preparing. The Text-Book is intended chiefly for the use of students who lay most stress on the study of the experimental part of Physics, and who have not yet reached the stage at which the reading of advanced treatises on special subjects is desirable. To bring the subject within the compass thus prescribed, an account is given only of phenomena which are of special importance, or which appear to throw light on other branches of Physics, and the mathematical methods adopted are very elementary. The students who possesses a knowledge of advanced mathematical methods, and who knows how to use them, will, no doubt, be able to work out and remember most easily at theory which uses such methods. But at present a large number of earnest students of Physics are not equipped, and the authors aim at giving an account of the subject which will be useful to students of this class.

Even for the reader who is mathematically trained, there is some advantage in the study of elementary methods, compensating for their cumbrous form.

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