Electric Waves: Being an Adams Prize Essay in the University of Cambridge

by H. M. MacDonald

Overview

Originally published in 1902, this book was written with the object of obtaining from Faraday's laws a consistent scheme for the representation of electrical phenomena, and of applying the results to obtain the quantitative relations existing in certain cases of the propagation of electrical effects. An appendices section is included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in physics, electricity and the history of science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107695191
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/19/2013
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The equations of electrodynamics; 3. Convection currents in motion and material media; 4. Maxwell's dynamical theory of electricity; 5. Dynamical theory; 6. Propagation of electrical effects in simply-connected spaces; 7. Propagation of electrical effects in multiply-connected spaces; 8. Radiation; 9. Open circuits; 10. Stationary waves in open circuits; Appendix A. The relation of theoretical to experimental physics; Appendix B. Continuous media; Appendix C. The electrodynamics of moving media; Appendix D. Diffraction.