ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

ByNorman E. Gilbert, Macmillan, 1932.

This book is the outgrowth of Dr. Gilbert's many years' experience in teaching Electricity and Magnetism to Dartmouth undergraduates. There has been hitherto no textbook in this field which quite adequately met the diversified needs of the average group taking such a course. Such a group is commonly made up of some men looking toward Engineering as a career, some who will go on into graduate work in Physics and still others who will not pursue the study of the subject beyond this course. It is necessary therefore to strike a balance between fundamental theory and its applications. This appears to have been done more successfully in this book than in any other in its field. The book has been used in mimeograph form for several years and has been so thoroughly worked over in the light of experience that it leaves little to be desired in readability and clearness of expression. It should find a large field of usefulness in American colleges.