A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

di James Clerk Maxwell (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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.

• Autore: James Clerk Maxwell
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 484 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 860 gr.
• EAN: 9781108014038

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