{pdf} Physical Measurements in Sound, Light, Electricity and Magnetism McKay T.C.

Berkeley: Stanley-Taylor Company, 1908, 196 p.This book is primarily intended as a text-book in physical measurements and a laboratory manual for second year students in physics at the University of California. At this institution there is offered to first year students a laboratory course in mechanics, properties of matter, and heat. The subjects considered in this book are therefore Sound, Light, Electricity, and Magnetism. The experiments here described have been chosen for the most part because they have proved to be valuable exercises in elementary laboratory courses given by instructors in physics at the University of California. A number of the experiments in this book have been described by Professor Drew, now of Leland Stanford University. Professor Hall of the University of California and Professor Minor of the University of Nevada have also contributed greatly to the development of the course. The writer has drawn upon several years experience at the University of California, as well as upon his previous experience at Harvard University, in the endeavor to select the most valuable experiments for an elementary laboratory course in the subjects of which this book treats. As compared with the books issued by the writer’s predecessors the sections on Electricity and on Sound have been enlarged. In the treatment of the subject of Electrostatics the writer is indebted to Professor Noack for his careful descriptions in his ”Elementare Messungen aus der Electrostatik.” Considerable use has also been made of Poynting and Thomson’s ”Sound” A description of the principal types of sensitive galvanometers has been given in the section on Electricity, with a short discussion of the conditions of greatest sensitiveness for these instruments.Measurement of velocity of sound, frequency of vibrations, and elasticities of materials.
Diffraction and interference experiments in sound. ? absorption in rooms.
Composition of vibrations.
Diffraction and interference of light-waves.
Measurement of refractive index.
Study of constituent parts of optical instruments.
Polarized light.
Fundamental experiments in electrostatics.
Measurement of magnetic moment and of field strength.
Measurement of current and resistance.
Comparison of resistances.
Measurement of electromotive force.
Comparison of magnetic fields. Comparison of specific inductive capacities.