Excerpt from Physical Experiments: A Manual and Note Book Containing the Laboratory Exercises Required for Admission to Harvard University, and Many Other Exercises, and Adapted to Accompany Any Text Book on PhysicsThere are obvious advantages in having the entire history of an experiment, including details of the manipulations, the data and results obtained, question and answer, suggestion and deduction, in immediate conjunction and included between the same covers. Especially is this the case in schools where (as in Boston) the laboratory manuals are retained by the pupil at the end of his course, while the text-books in science remain the property of the city.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.