Excerpt from A Manual of Physical MeasurementsThe cmnputation of results should gmnerallv be done at home. And the complete experiment recorded in a sepa rate note book to be handed to the instructor as the final report upon the work of the course. In this book the date, number, name and object of the exercise should precede the record of observations and the computed results. This material together with any necessary explanatory memo randa should be written on the right howl page, the left hand page being reserved. For sketches of apparatus, and the de rivation of necessary formulae. Separate page should always be begun for each new experiment.Graphical Methods. It is frequently of interest to verify a law stating the relation that is known to exist be tween two quantities, or to detect and determine such a re lation where it is not known. In all such cases the results obtained by observation are most clearly presented to the eye. When plotted as a curve. In the application of the method it is customary to plot allies of the independent variable as abscissae and those of the dependent variable as ordinates. In all cases where the phenomenon under in vestigation is continuous, a smooth curve sketched through the points obtained, may be assumed to represent the facts better than any individual observation. The graphical method has the additional ad antage that an accidental er ror is at once made evident by the fact that the point so ob lm'ned departs unzrkedly from the mrce.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.