Includes index.

"The book follows an earlier volume [11] dealing with the subject of fluid mechanics and assumes a similar pattern. The primary purpose is to provide the essential material for a course of laboratory work in thermodynamics in a form designed to reduce the teacher's preparatory labour to manageable proportions. It is intended that this book should be suitable for use in two different ways: either with full participation by the lecturer, or independently by the student with only limited instruction and supervision at a practical level by a laboratory technician or assistant. The structure of the book is arranged to facilitate this. In each of Chapter 2 to 9, after a summary of the relevant theory, a description is given of the experiments and of suitable apparatus with which they may be carried out. The authors make no apology for referring to specific equipment at this point, since they believe that the value of their work would be greatly reduced if they merely descended to generalities. The difficulties encountered in laboratory work are nearly always matters of practical detail that do not come to light until the experiment is actually carried out. In this connection it may be emphazied that every experiment described has been performed by one or other of the authors using the apparatus in the book. It is not, of course, intended that identical apparatus should necessarily be used by the reader; however, the fact that the experiments described have actually been performed is a guarantee that with adequate equipment no serious snags are to be expected."

English text.