Theory of Experimental Electricity

This book, first published in 1923 as the third edition of a 1905 original, provides an account of the principles of experimental electricity.

List of contents

1. General principles of electrostatics; 2. Some theorems of electrostatics; 3. The dielectric medium; 4. Magnetism; 5. The electric current; 6. Thermo-electricity; 7. Electromagnetic induction; 8. Electrical units; 9. Electromagnetic waves; 10. Electrolysis; 11. The conduction of electricity through gases; 12. Radio-activity; Index.

Summary

In this book, which was first published in 1923 as the third edition of a 1905 original, British scientist and agriculturalist Sir William Cecil Dampier-Whetham provides an account of the principles of experimental electricity based on the content of a series of lectures given to students at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: William Cecil Dampier-Whetham, William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107658455
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65845-5
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism