James Clerk Maxwell and Modern PhysicsGlazebrook, Richard
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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics
Glazebrook, Richard
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879; Physics -- History
General Theory of Gases, Waterston on, 118;
Clausius on, 119
Glenlair, home of Maxwell, 11, 23;
laboratory at, 24;
Maxwell’s life at, 58, 59;
“Electricity and Magnetism” written at, 79
Gordon, J. E. H., 77, 78
Green, G., of Nottingham, paper on electricity and magnetism, 158;
inventor of term “Potential,” 158
Hamilton, Sir W. R., 22
Hamilton’s Principle, 190
Heat, Text-book on, by Maxwell, 79
Helmholtz, 99, 156, 157, 175, 221
Henry, J., of Washington, on electro-magnetic induction, 157
Herapath on molecules, 112–116
Hertz, Heinrich, 204, 209–213
Hicks, W. M., 221
Hockin, C., 56
Holman, Professor, 133
Iceland Spar, 200
Insulators and Conductors, Distinction between, 173
Jenkin, Fleeming, 55, 56
Kelland, Professor, 22
Kelvin, Lord, 16, 142, 158, 159, 160, 168;
on the Uniform Motion of Heat, 160;
papers on Electricity and Magnetism, 161, 162
Kinetic energy, 124, 129, 136, 139, 191
King’s College, London, Maxwell elected Professor at, 54
Kohlrausch, 206
Kundt, 132
Labile Ether, 220
Laboratory at Glenlair, 24
Lagrange, 179
Lagrange’s Equations, 179, 190
Laplace, 155
Larmor, J., 141, 142
Lecher, 214
Lenz, 157
Litchfield, R. B., 46
Light, Electro-magnetic Theory of, 174;
Waves of, 198, 199
Lodge, Professor, book on Modern Views of Electricity, 177
Lucretius, 108
Luminous Radiation, 221
Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge, subjects, 60;
Maxwell an examiner for, 60, 80;
experimental work in, 76
Matter and Motion, Maxwell on, 79
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