Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism

A collection of Lord Kelvin's articles on electromagnetism, in its second edition of 1884.

William Thomson (Author)

9781108029810, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

628 pages, 60 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.79 kg

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), born with a great talent for mathematics and physics, was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. While only in his twenties, he was appointed to the University of Glasgow's Chair in Natural Philosophy, which he was to hold for over fifty years. He is best known for lending his name to the Kelvin unit of measurement for temperature, after his development of an absolute scale of temperature. This book is a corrected 1884 edition of Kelvin's 1872 collection of papers on electrostatics and magnetism. It includes all his work on these subjects previously published as articles in journals including the Cambridge Mathematical Journal and the Transactions of the Royal Society. Kelvin also wrote several new items to fill gaps in this collection, so that its coverage of the state of electromagnetic research in the late nineteenth century is comprehensive.

Preface
1. On the uniform motion of heat in homogeneous solid bodies, and its connexion with the mathematical theory of electricity
2. On the mathematical theory of electricity in equilibrium I
3. On the electrostatical capacity of a Leyden phial and of a telegraph wire insulated in the axis of a cylindrical conducting sheath
4. On the mathematical theory of electricity in equilibrium II
5. On the mathematical theory of electricity in equilibrium III
6. On the mutual attraction or repulsion between two electrified spherical conductors
7. On the attractions of conducting and non-conducting electrified bodies
8. Demonstration of a fundamental proposition in the mechanical theory of electricity
9. Note on induced magnetism in a plate
10. Sur une propriété de la couche électrique en équilibre à la surface d'un corps conducteur
11. On certain definite integrals suggested by problems in the theory of electricity
12. Propositions in the theory of attraction
13. Theorems with reference to the solution of certain partial differential equations
14. Electrical images
15. Determination of the distribution of electricity on a circular segment of plane or spherical conducting surface, under any given influence
16. Atmospheric electricity
17. Sound produced by the discharge of a condenser
18. Measurement of the electrostatic force produced by a Daniell's battery
19. Measurement of the electromotive force required to produce a spark in air between parallel metal plates at different distances
20. Report on electrometers and electrostatic measurements
21. Atmospheric electricity
22. New proof of contact electricity
23. Electrophoric apparatus and illustrations of voltaic theory
24. A mathematical theory of magnetism: i. Preliminary definitions and explanations
ii. On the laws of magnetic force, and on the distribution of magnetism in magnetized matter
iii. On the imaginary magnetic matter by means of which the polarity of a magnetized body may be represented
iv. Determination of the mutual actions between any given portions of magnetized matter
v. On solenoidal and lamellar distributions of magnetism
vi. On electromagnets
25. On the potential of a closed galvanic circuit of any form
26. On the mechanical values of distributions of matter and of magnets
27. Hydrokinetic analogy
28. Inverse problems
29. On the electric currents by which the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism may be produced
30. On the theory of magnetic induction in crystalline and non-crystalline substances
31. Magnetic permeability and analogues in electrostatic induction, conduction of heat and fluid motion
32. Diagrams of lines of force, to illustrate magnetic permeability
33. On the forces experienced by small spheres under magnetic influence, and on some of the phenomena presented by diamagnetic substances
34. Remarks on the forces experienced by inductively magnetized ferromagnetic or diamagnetic non-crystalline substances
35. Abstract of two communications
36. Remarques sur les oscillations d'aiguilles non cristallisées de faible pouvoir inductif paramangétique ou diamagnétique, et sur d'autres phénomênes magnétiques produits par des corps cristallisés ou non cristallisés
37. Elementary demonstration of propositions in the theory of magnetic force
38. Correspondence with Professor Tyndall
39. Inductive susceptibility of a polar magnet
40. General problem of magnetic induction
41. Hydrokinetic analogy for the magnetic influence of an ideal extreme diamagnetic
42. General hydrokinetic analogy for induced magnetism.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]