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
Puluj, 134
Quincke, 206
Radiation, Luminous, 221
Rarefied Gases, Stresses in, paper by Maxwell, 135, 145
Rayleigh, Lord, 67, 77
Rede Lecture on the Telephone, delivered by Maxwell, 89
Report on Electrical Theories, J. J. Thomson, 204
---- of Syndicate as to instruction in Physics at Cambridge, 62–64
Robertson, C. H., 28
Rolling Curves, Maxwell on, 23
Royal Society, The, Maxwell and, 55;
Transactions of, 89
Rumford Medal gained by Maxwell, 55, 106
Sabine, Major-General, Vice-President of Royal Society, 106
Smith’s Prizes, 36
Standards of Electrical Resistance, Committee on, 55
Stewart, Balfour, 56, 125
Stresses in Rarefied Gases, Maxwell on, 135, 155
Tait, Professor P. G., 21, 26, 94
Tayler, Rev. C. B., 29
Telephone, Rede Lecture by Maxwell on, 89
Theory of Glaciers, Prof. Forbes on, 19
Thomson, J. J., 157, 208;
Report on Electrical Theories, 205
Thomson’s _Annals of Philosophy_, 112, 113
Uniform Motion of Heat in Homogeneous Solid Bodies, paper by Lord
Kelvin, 160, 161
University Commission, 47, 48, 62
Urr, Vale of, 11
Vector Potential, The, 165, 221
Viscosity of Gases, Experiments on, 58, 125, 132
Volta, Inventor of voltaic pile, 155
Waterston, J. J., on molecular theory of gases, 114, 115;
on general theory of gases, 118
Waves of Light, 198, 199
Weber, W., 156, 206
Wedderburn, Mrs., 14
Wheatstone’s Bridge, 77
Williams, J., Archdeacon of Cardigan, 16
Willis, Professor, 44
Wilson, E., lines in memory of, 86, 87
Young, T., on colour sensation, 97, 98
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Transcriber’s note:
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unpaired.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs
and outside quotations.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected,
renumbered, and placed just before the Index.
The Index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page
references.
Some values in the original book are known today to be incorrect, but
have not been changed here.
Page 133: The last equation on the page,
μ = μ₀ (1 + .00275 t - .00000034 t²)
was misprinted as
μ = μ₀ {1 + .00275 t .00000034 t²}.
It is shown here with corrections based on its cited source:
https://archive.org/details/s05philosophicalmag21londuoft/page/212
Page 144: “possibly of ether atoms bound with them” was printed that
way, but “ether” may be a misprint for “other”.
Page 170: “hence at C, where they touch” was printed as “A”, but Figure
1 at that point is labelled “C”.
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