A Laboratory Course in Physics for Secondary Schools (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert Andrews Millikan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330210840 ISBN 13 : 9781330210840

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Although laboratory work is now generally recognized as an indispensable part of any adequate course in elementary physics, it is nevertheless a lamentable fact that there are still some schools in which it is not attempted at all, while there are others in which, despite the most expensive equipment, the laboratory fails, on the whole, either to interest or instruct. Both of these conditions are probably attributable to one and the same cause. In our modern glorification of the laboratory, method, particularly of exact, quantitative measurements, and in our haste to get away from the superficial, descriptive physics of thirty years ago, some of us have undoubtedly gone so far as to defeat our own aims. We have made the laboratory an impossibility in schools which are financially weak, because we have made its expense prohibitive; and we have made it a disappointment in other schools which are financially strong, because in our eagerness to show our students exactly how much we have neglected to show them how and why. In short, the gravest danger which threatens the efficiency of the high-school laboratory to-day is the danger which arises from the creeping over of the methods and the instruments of research and specialization from the university into the high school, where they have absolutely no place, the danger that principles shall be lost sight of in the bewildering details of refined methods and refined instruments.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330210840
• ISBN 13: 9781330210840
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 145
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