Short description
This treatise details Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. The theory elaborated here inspired both Lorentz's theories on the electron and Einstein's theory of relativity. This volume deals with the theory of electricity, covering electrostatics and electrokinematics.
Long description
Originally published in 1891, this treatise details Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism which underpins much modern physics. The theory elaborated here inspired both Lorentz's theories on the electron and Einstein's theory of relativity. This volume deals with the theory of electricity: Part 1 treats electrostatics and Part 2 electrokinematics.
Review
'The formulation of these equations is the most important event in physics since Newton's time' Albert Einstein in The Evolution of Physics
Table of contents
- Preliminary
- on the measurement of quantities
- Part Electrostatics
- description of phenomena
- elementary mathematical theory of electricity
- on electrical work and energy in a system of conductors
- general theorems
- mechanical action between two electrical systems
- points and lines of equilibrium
- forms of equipotential surfaces and lines of flow
- simple cases of electrificaiton
- spherical harmonics
- confocal surfaces of the second degree
- theory of electric images
- conjugate functions in two dimensions
- electrostatic instruments
- Part Electrokinematics
- The electric current
- conduction and resistance
- electromotive force between bodies in contact
- electrolysis
- electrolyte polarization
- mathematical theory of the distribution of electric currents
- conduction in three dimensions
- resistance and conductivity in three dimensions
- conduction through heterogeneous media
- conduction in dielectrics
- measurement of the electric resistance of conductors
- electric resistance of substances