Abstract
A COMPARATIVE beginner in the study of physics automatically subscribes to the time-honoured convention, which the average textbook does little to dispel, of grouping the subdivisions of that branch of science under five or six rigid headings. Some utility may reasonably be claimed for such classification, even though the insidious evil of thinking in terms of ‘water-tight compartments’ may not be unconnected with so primary an attempt to sub-divide knowledge of natural phenomena. The revolution initiated early in the present century by the quantum theory has been so drastic, and has been followed up by a vast field of workers eager to explore the multiplicity of paths which it brought to light, with the result that an amazing accumulation of knowledge has resulted, with which the modern physicist and chemist is expected to cope.
A Text Book of Heat (including Kinetic Theory of Matter, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Theories of Thermal lonisation).
Prof. M. N. Saha B. N. Srivastava. Pp. xxv + 771. (Allahabad: The Indian Press, Ltd., 1931.) n.p.
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B., N. A Text Book of Heat (including Kinetic Theory of Matter, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Theories of Thermal lonisation) . Nature 130, 794–795 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130794a0
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