Paperback. Red cover with white title.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean extremely rare original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. 

 This is Jack’s parents’ personal copy. This little book is written in the first place for students in technical colleges taking the National Certificate Courses in Applied Physics; it is hoped it will appeal also to students of physics, and perhaps chemistry, in the sixth forms of grammar schools and in the universities. For wherever experimental work in physics, or in science generally, is undertaken the degree of accuracy of the measurements, and of the results of the experiments, must be of the first importance. Every teacher of experimental physics knows how “results” given to three or four decimal places are often in error in the first place; students suffer from “delusions of accuracy. ” At a higher level too, more experienced workers sometimes claim a degree of accuracy which cannot be justified. Perhaps a consideration of the topics discussed in this monograph will stimulate in students an attitude to experimental results at onee more modest and more profound. The mathematical treatment throughout has been kept as simple as possible. It has seemed advisable, however, to explain the statistical concepts at the basis of the main considerations, and it is hoped that Chapter 2 contains as elementary an account of the leading statistical ideas involved as is possible in such a small compass. It is a necessary link between the simple introduction to the nature and estimation of errors given in Chapter 1, and the theory of errors discussed in Chapter 3.

“Institute of Physics. London Monographs for Students” was a series of books published by the Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing, likely from the mid-20th century, though the original “Monographs for Students” title is not a current main series. These older, now likely out-of-print, titles were aimed at students, covering topics like D.C. analogue computers, and can be found on used bookseller sites. Today, IOP Publishing offers modern series for students, such as the “IOP Concise Physics” and “IOP Series in Physics Education,” alongside a range of research and reference texts. 

Historical series: Institute of Physics Monographs for Students

• Content: Focused on specific, advanced physics topics for students. For example, one volume from this series was titled D.C. Analogue Computers.
• Format: Published in paperback, with older volumes from the mid-20th century.
• Availability: Not part of the current publishing