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EDSER'S “Heat for Advanced Students” has been familiar to successive student generations in schools and colleges since it was first published in 1899. The essential character of the book is retained iri this revised edition, prepared by Mr. N. M. Bligh after the death of Mr. Edwin Edser in 1932. The methods of the calculus have now been introduced, resulting in more concise treatment, and the term calorie, in conformity with present usage, replaces the therm previously used in the same sense. Recent developments of the subject have been described, and the chapter on radiation has been rewritten so that it now includes a simple introduction to the quantum theory. In its revised form, the book should make a fresh appeal to teachers and students.
Heat for Advanced Students
By the late Edwin Edser. Revised edition by N. M. Bligh. Pp. x + 487. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 6s.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 138, 952 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138952a0
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