A treatise on electricity and magnetism. Volume 1 / James Clerk Maxwell.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge library collection. Physical sciences.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 425 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511709333 (ebook)
- 537 23
- QC518 .M46 2010
Originally published: Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1873.
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Arguably 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 electromagnetism. Volume 1 covers the first elements of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory: electrostatics, and electrokinematics, including detailed analyses of electrolysis, conduction in three dimensions, and conduction through heterogeneous media.
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