Practical Physics - Tapa dura

'Dr Squires has made a very worthwhile contribution to the surprisingly small number of modern textbooks available on this subject'. New Scientist

'I envy Squires' students! All other students should wish to own this book for the wealth of advice it gives them ...'. Contemporary Physics

'This is a quite invaluable book for those at, or nearing, undergraduate level'. The Times Educational Supplement

This book sets out to demonstrate the critical approach that physics students should take towards all experimental work. The present edition retains the basic outlook of earlier editions, but modifications have been made in response to important changes in computational and experimental methods in the past decade. The text is in three parts. The first deals with the statistical treatment of data, the second with the experimental methods,, and finally, there is a section dealing with keeping efficient records, accuracy in arithmetic and how to write up the experiment. The book is liberally sprinkled throughout with examples and exercises.