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exercise book; student notes
Royal Air Force
Europe: United Kingdom
1946
paper
overall: 223 mm x 180 mm
Armed Services educational exercise book used by Leading Aircraftman [Denis] White, part of an archive documenting his training as an ophthalmic optician. White paper, ruled in blue, with soft RAF blue end papers, stapled. Handwritten contents, subject: Physics. Dated notes from 18 January-11 July 1946. Topics include: mechanics, motion, speed graphs, motion under gravity, projectiles, absolute unit of force, triangle and parallelogram of forces, work, work done in rotation, energy, relation between heat and mechanical work, conservation of energy, power, simple machines, states of matter, density, specific gravity, principle of Archimedes, hydrometers, atmospheric pressure (barometers), heat, expansion of solids, pendulum, expansion of liquids, expansion of gases, calorimetry, latent heat, transmission of heat, light, mirrors, colour.
2021.905
Gift of Mrs Elaine Hazell, in memory of Mr Denis White FSMC, 2020