A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
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USDArguably the most influential nineteenth-century scientist for twentieth-century physics, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field. A fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Maxwell became, in 1871, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. His famous equations - a set of four partial differential equations that relate the electric and magnetic fields to their sources, charge density and current density - first appeared in fully developed form in his 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. This two-volume textbook brought together all the experimental and theoretical advances in the field of electricity and magnetism known at the time, and provided a methodical and graduated introduction to electromagnetic theory. Volume 2 covers magnetism and electromagnetism, including the electromagnetic theory of light, the theory of magnetic action on light, and the electric theory of magnetism.
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9781108014045
484 pages
216 × 140 × 27 mm
0.61kg
7 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part III. Magnetism:
- 1. Elementary theory of magnetism
- 2. Magnetic force and magnetic induction
- 3. Particular forms of magnets
- 4. Induced magnetization
- 5. Magnetic problems
- 6. Weber's theory of magnetic induction
- 7. Magnetic measurements
- 8. Terrestrial magnetism
- Part IV. Electromagnetism:
- 1. Electromagnetic force
- 2. Mutual action of electric currents
- 3. Induction of electric currents
- 4. Induction of a current on itself
- 5. General equations of dynamics
- 6. Application of dynamics to electromagnetism
- 7. Electrokinetics
- 8. Exploration of the field by means of the secondary circuit
- 9. General equations
- 10. Dimensions of electric units
- 11. Energy and stress
- 12. Current-sheets
- 13. Parallel currents
- 14. Circular currents
- 15. Electromagnetic instruments
- 16. Electromagnetic observations
- 17. Electrical measurement of coefficients of induction
- 18. Determination of resistance in electromagnetic measure
- 19. Comparison of electrostatic with electromagnetic units
- 20. Electromagnetic theory of light
- 21. Magnetic action on light
- 22. Electric theory of magnetism
- 23. Theories of action at a distance
- Index.
