Excerpt from The New Physics: A Manual of Experimental Study for High SchoolsThe teacher may grant the comparatively small result which is obtained from the study of physics by the method of lectures and recitations, but he will immediately ask, How can we obtain the time for laboratory work in physics - crowded as we are with so many studies? Moreover, the subject of physics is unlike that of chemistry of botany. In these subjects the cost of the apparatus and mate rial is comparatively small. Each student can have his own tubes, his own reagents, and his own mi croscope. In physics it is very different. The'ap paratus is expensive. A spectroscope, for instance, would cost nearly as much as the entire apparatus in a chemical laboratory. These are strong objec tions, and need careful consideration. The time, however, which is now given to recitation from text-books could at least be devoted to laboratory work, and the lectures could be reduced in num ber and only given to direct the students in their laboratory work. More can be done with cheap apparatus than is generally supposed. It is one of the objects of my treatise to show this.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.