A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Author : James Clerk Maxwell
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Electric power
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Author : James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Electric power
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Author : James Clerk Maxwell
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Electricity
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Author : James Clerk Maxwell
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Electricity
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Author : Bruce J. Hunt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801482342
James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists--G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge--along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."
Author : Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0080457444
This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items. - First book of its kind - Covers the period 1640-1940 of massive development in mathematics - Describes many of the main writings of mathematics - Articles written by specialists in their field
Author : James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486174638
Albert Einstein characterized the work of James Clerk Maxwell as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." Max Planck went even further, declaring that "he achieved greatness unequalled," and Richard Feynman asserted that "From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics." Maxwell made numerous other contributions to the advancement of science, but the greatest work of his life was devoted to electricity. An Elementary Treatise on Electricity appeared at a time when very few books on electrical measurements were available to students, and its compact treatment not only elucidates the theory of electricity but also serves to develop electrical ideas in readers' minds. The author describes experiments that demonstrate the principal facts relating an electric charge as a quantity capable of being measured, deductions from these facts, and the exhibition of electrical phenomena. This volume, published posthumously from Maxwell's lecture notes at the Cavendish Laboratory — which he founded at the University of Cambridge — is supplemented by a selection of articles from his landmark book, Electricity and Magnetism. A classic of science, this volume is an eminently suitable text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.
Author : James Edward Henry Gordon
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368199633
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Howard J. Fisher
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781888009453
Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism brought about what Einstein called "the greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics since Newton." But Maxwell's aim was never to construct an axiomatic theory. Instead, the Treatise presents an argument which, beginning with the most characteristic electrical and magnetic phenomena, and interpreting them as manifestations of continuous fields of electric and magnetic energy, culminates in Maxwell's theory of light as a wave motion within those fields. The argument of the Treatise is not straightforwardly demonstrative but is a dialectical one that can be challenging to discern among the many topics presented. This book undertakes to extract and expound the principal path of Maxwell's dialectical thinking.
Author : James Edward Henry Gordon
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 1889
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