A Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism
Online ISBN:
9781383020663
Print ISBN:
9780198503743
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Book
A Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism
Published:
8 October 1998
Online ISBN:
9781383020663
Print ISBN:
9780198503743
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Cite
Maxwell, James Clerk, A Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism (Oxford , 1998; online edn, Oxford Academic, 31 Oct. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198503743.001.0001, accessed 15 May 2024.
Abstract
Described by Einstein as “the most important event in physics since Newton's time,” the discovery by James Clerk Maxwell that a vast array of phenomena could be united by four elegant formulas remains one of the greatest successes of modern physics. This book, based on the third originally published in 1891, presents the original work which underpins the electronic revolution in the 20th century and which inspired both Lorentz’s theories on the electron and Einstein's theory of relativity. Volume II covers magnetism and electromagnetism.
Contents
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Front Matter
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Part III Magnetism
James Clerk Maxwell -
Part IV Electromagnetism.
James Clerk Maxwell - 7 Theory of electric circuits.
- 8 Exploration of the field by means of the secondary circuit.
- 9 General equations of the electromagnetic field.
- 10 Dimensions of electric units.
- 11 On energy and stress in the electromagnetic field
- 12 Current-sheets
- 13 Parallel currents
- 14 Circular currents.
- 15 Electromagnetic instruments,
- 16 Electromagnetic observations.
- 17 Comparison of coils
- 18 Electromagnetic unit of resistance
- 19 Comparison of the electrostatic with the electro magnetic units
- 20 Electromagnetic theory of light
- 21 Magnetic action on light
- 22 Ferromagnetism and diamagnetism explained by molecular currents
- 23 Theories of action at a distance
© Oxford University Press 1998
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