Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a Sequel to Professor Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

by J.J. Thomson and James Clerk Maxwell

Book Overview

This 1893 publication is a central text in the work of the Nobel prize winning physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858-1940). Intended as an extension of James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, it documents the important shift in Thomson's thinking towards the model of the atomic electric field, a theory that would eventually lead to his discovery of the electron. In Chapter 1, Thomson documents his experiments with Faraday tubes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108015204
• ISBN13: 9781108015202
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"