Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field

A Guided Study

Thomas K. Simpson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

1997
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2363-7 (ISBN)

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This volume reproduces major portions of James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical physics papers, written as he grappled with his formulation of the theory of the electromagnetic field. A biographical introduction places the work in personal, historical and scientific context.

In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Thomas K. Simpson offers readers a chance to watch one of the greatest minds in physics hard at work. In three papers in mathematical physics written between 1855 and 1864, James Clerk Maxwell grappled with his formulation of the theory of the electromagnetic field.

This volume reproduces major portions of the text of Maxwell's classic papers on concepts that are key to both modern physics and the modern world. Through Simpson's engaginbg commentaries and notes and Anne Farrell's illustrations, readers with limited knowledge of math or physics as well as scientists and historians of science will be able to follow the emergence of Maxwell's ideas and to appreciate the magnitude of his achievement. This book includes a long biographical introduction that explores the personal, historical, and scientific context of Maxwell's book.

Series Editor's Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2 On Faraday's Lines of Force
Chapter 3 On Physical Lines of Force
Chapter 4 A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
Notes
Selected Readings
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.1997
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	766 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
ISBN-10	0-8135-2363-X / 081352363X
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-2363-7 / 9780813523637
Zustand	Neuware