Short Textbook of Physics

This book is a translation of the 6th to 8th edition of the author''s Kleines Lehrbuch der Physik. The circle of readers to which it hopes to appeal and the author''s purpose in writing it have been set out in the Preface to the first German edition, published in 1948. The present book consistently follows the principles of the theory of quantities, the beginnings of which date back to James C. Ma...