Elementary Treatise on Electricity

Klappentext A key nineteenth-century science textbook explaining the fundamentals of electricity. Zusammenfassung James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was one of the most influential physicists of the nineteenth century. This work of 1881, based on his lectures, was intended to complement his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), to provide less mathematical students with an understanding of fundamental concepts regarding electricity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's preface; Fragment of author's preface; 1. Experiment 1; 2. On the charges of electrified bodies; 3. On electrical work and energy; 4. The electric field; 5. Faraday's law of lines of induction; 6. Particular cases of electrification; 7. Electrical images; 8. Capacity; 9. Electric current; 10. Phenomena of an electric current which flows through heterogeneous media; 11. Methods of maintaining an electric current; 12. On the measurement of electric resistance; 13. On the electric resistance of substances.

Product details

• Authors: James Clerk Maxwell
• Assisted by: William Garnett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108028783
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02878-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics