Excerpt from Physical Measurements, Vol. 1: A Laboratory Manual in General Physics for Colleges This manual presents the laboratory exercises of the Courses in General Physics offered at the University of California. It is printed in four parts, each part accompanied by appropriate tables. Parts I and II contain experiments on Heat, Properties of Matter, and Mechanics. Part III deals with Magnetism and Electricity, and Part IV is devoted to Sound and Light. While the manual is largely based upon the exercises printed in Physical Measurements in Properties of Matter and Heat-Minor and Elston, and Physical Measurements in Sound, Light and Electricity-Minor, it represents a revision in which the writer has attempted two things. First, to base the college laboratory work squarely upon the foundation afforded by a first course, and second, to omit exercises based upon topics which properly belong to the lecture demonstration and which experience has shown to be adequately treated there. The writer's predecessors, Professor Harold Whiting. Professor E. R. Drew, Professor Elmer E. Hall, Dr. T Sidney Elston, A. C. Alexander, G. K. Burgess, Brucc V. Hill, A. S. King, and T. C. McKay have all influenced the development of these exercises. Material has been freely drawn from the literature of the subject whether in magazine or text book form without specific credit being always indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.