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

Originally published in 1902, this book aimed to obtain from Faraday's laws a consistent scheme for the representation of electrical phenomena.

H. M. MacDonald (Author)

9781107695191, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

216 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]