Mathematical and Physical Papers, by George Gabriel Stokes. Reprinted from the Original Journals and Transactions, with Additional Notes by the Author

by George Gabriel Stokes

Overview

Sir George Stokes (1819–1903) established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid. He published no books, but was a prolific lecturer and writer of papers for the Royal Society, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Victoria Institute and other mathematical and scientific institutions. These collected papers (issued between 1880 and 1905) are therefore the only readily available record of the work of an outstanding and influential mathematician, who was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge for over fifty years, Master of Pembroke College, President of the Royal Society (1885–1890), Associate Secretary of the Royal Commission on the University of Cambridge and a Member of Parliament for the University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781418167875
Publisher:	University of Michigan Library
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	Michigan Historical Reprint
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

Obituary notice by Lord Rayleigh; 1. Note on certain formulæ in the calculus of operations; 2. An experiment on electro-magnetic rotation; 3. On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate; 4. On certain movements of radiometers; 5. On the question of a theoretical limit to the apertures of microscopic objectives; 6. On an easy and at the same time accurate method of determining the ratio of the dispersions of glasses intended for objectives; 7. On a method of detecting inequalities of unknown periods in a series of observations; 8. Description of the card supported for sunshine recorders adopted at the meteorological office; 9. On a simple mode of eliminating errors of adjustment in delicate observations of compared spectra; 10. Discussion of the results of some experiments with whirled anemometers; 11. On the determination of the constants of the cup anemometer by experiments with a whirling machine; 12. Note on the reduction of Mr Crookes's experiments on the decrement of the arc of vibration of a mice plate oscillating within a bulb containing more or less rarefied gas; 13. On the cause of the light border frequently noticed in photographs just outside the outline of a dark body seen against the sky; 14. Extracts from reports of the Committee of Solar Physics; 15. Memorandum for the use of observers with Professor Balfour Stewart's actinometer; 16. On the highest wave of uniform propagation; 17. On the maximum wave of uniform propagation; 18. Note on the theory of the solitary wave; 19. The outskirts of the solitary wave; 20. On a remarkable phenomenon of crystalline reflection; 21. The coefficient of viscosity of air; 22. Note on the determination of arbitrary constants which appear as multipliers of semi-convergent series; 23. On a graphical representation of the results of Dr Alder Wright's experiments on ternary alloys; 24. On an optical proof of the existence of suspended matter in flames; 25. On the reactions occurring in flames; 26. The influence of surface-loading on the flexure of beams; 27. On the best methods of recording the direct intensity of solar radiation; 28. On the nature of the Röntgen rays; 29. On the nature of the Röntgen rays (Wilde lecture); 30. Mathematical proof of the identity of the stream lines obtained by means of a viscous film with those of a perfect fluid moving in two dimensions; 31. On the discontinuity of arbitrary constants that appear as multipliers of semi-convergent series; 32. On the methods of chemical fractionation; 33. The ultra-violet Spectrum of Radium; Appendix; Index.