{"product_id":"mathematical-and-physical-papers-paperback-9781108029018","title":"Mathematical and Physical Papers (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108029018","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMathematical and Physical Papers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA six-volume collection of the scientific papers of Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), one of Britain's most eminent mathematical physicists.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Thomson (Author), Sir Joseph Larmor (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108029018, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e584 pages, 65 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWilliam Thomson, first Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, though throughout his 53-year career as a mathematical physicist and engineer at the University of Glasgow he investigated a wide range of scientific questions in areas ranging from geology to transatlantic telegraph cables. The extent of his work is revealed in the six volumes of his Mathematical and Physical Papers, published from 1882 until 1911, consisting of articles that appeared in scientific periodicals from 1841 onwards. Volume 4, published in 1910, includes articles from the period 1867–1906. Themes covered in this book examine issues relating to water, such as hydrodynamics, tidal theory and deep sea ship waves.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHydrodynamics: 1. On vortex atoms\u003cbr\u003e 2. On vortex motion\u003cbr\u003e 3. The translatory velocity of a circular vortex ring\u003cbr\u003e 4. On the motion of free solids through a liquid\u003cbr\u003e 5. Influence of wind and capillarity on waves in water supposed frictionless\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ripples and waves\u003cbr\u003e 7. On the forces experienced by solids immersed in a moving liquid\u003cbr\u003e 8. On attractions and repulsions due to vibration\u003cbr\u003e 9. On the motion of rigid solids in a liquid circulating irrotationally through perforations in them or in a fixed solid\u003cbr\u003e 10. Vortex statics\u003cbr\u003e 11. On the precessional motion of a liquid\u003cbr\u003e 12. Floating magnets\u003cbr\u003e 13. On gravitational oscillations of rotating water\u003cbr\u003e 14. On the formation of coreless vortices by the motion of a solid through an inviscid incompressible fluid\u003cbr\u003e 15. Vibrations of a columnar vortex\u003cbr\u003e 16. On the stability of steady and of periodic fluid motion\u003cbr\u003e 17. On a disturbing infinity in Lord Rayleigh's solution for waves in a plane vortex stratum\u003cbr\u003e 18. On the average pressure due to impulse of vortex-rings on a solid\u003cbr\u003e 19. On the figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of fluid\u003cbr\u003e 20. On the motion of a liquid within an ellipsoidal hollow\u003cbr\u003e 21. On the stability and small oscillation of a perfect liquid full of nearly straight coreless vortices\u003cbr\u003e 22. Towards the efficiency of sails, windmills, screw-propellers in water and air, and aeroplanes\u003cbr\u003e 23. On the resistance of a fluid to a plane kept moving uniformly in a direction inclined to it at a small angle\u003cbr\u003e 24. On the motion of a heterogeneous liquid, commencing from rest with a given motion of its boundary\u003cbr\u003e 25. On the doctrine of discontinuity of fluid motion, in connection with the resistance against a solid moving through a fluid\u003cbr\u003e Theory of the Tides: 26. On an alleged error in Laplace's Theory of the Tides\u003cbr\u003e 27. Note on the 'Oscillations of the First Species' in Laplace's Theory of the Tides\u003cbr\u003e 28. General integration of Laplace's differential equation of the tides\u003cbr\u003e Waves on Water: 29. On stationary waves in flowing water\u003cbr\u003e 30. On the waves produced by a single impulse in water of any depth, or in a dispersive medium\u003cbr\u003e 31. On the front and rear of a free procession of waves in deep water\u003cbr\u003e 32. On ship waves\u003cbr\u003e 33. On the propagation of laminar motion through a turbulently moving inviscid liquid\u003cbr\u003e 34. Rectilineal motion of viscous fluid between two parallel planes\u003cbr\u003e 35. On deep-water two-dimensional waves produced by any given initiating disturbance\u003cbr\u003e 36. On the front and rear of a free procession of waves in deep water\u003cbr\u003e 37. Deep water ship-waves\u003cbr\u003e 38. Deep sea ship-waves\u003cbr\u003e 39. Initiation of deep-sea waves of three classes. 1. from a single displacement, 2. from a group of equal and similar displacements, 3. by a periodically varying surface-pressure\u003cbr\u003e 40. Physical explanation of the mackerel sky\u003cbr\u003e General Dynamics: 41. On some kinematical and dynamical theorems\u003cbr\u003e 42. On a new form of centrifugal governor\u003cbr\u003e 43. On a new astronomical clock, and a pendulum governor for uniform motion\u003cbr\u003e 44. On the perturbation of the compass produced by the rolling of the ship\u003cbr\u003e 45. On a new form of astronomical clock with free pendulum and independently governed uniform motion for escapement-wheel\u003cbr\u003e 46. Elasticity viewed as possibly a mode of motion\u003cbr\u003e 47. Steps towards a kinetic theory of matter\u003cbr\u003e 48. On a gyrostatic working model of the magnetic compass\u003cbr\u003e 49. Gyrostatic experiments\u003cbr\u003e 50. On some test cases for the Maxwell-Boltzmann doctrine regarding distribution of energy\u003cbr\u003e 51. On a decisive test-case disproving the Maxwell-Boltzmann doctrine distribution of kinetic energy\u003cbr\u003e 52. On periodic motion of a finite conservative system\u003cbr\u003e 53. On a theorem in plane kinetic trigonometry suggested by Gauss's theorem of curvatura integra\u003cbr\u003e 54. On the stability of periodic motion\u003cbr\u003e 55. On graphic solution of dynamical problems\u003cbr\u003e 56. 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