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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      24 June 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511709333
      9781108014038
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709333
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 484 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
      Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, Electromagnetics, General and Classical Physics, Engineering: General Interest
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
    Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, Electromagnetics, General and Classical Physics, Engineering: General Interest
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    Arguably the most influential nineteenth-century scientist for twentieth-century physics, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field. A fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Maxwell became, in 1871, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. His famous equations - a set of four partial differential equations that relate the electric and magnetic fields to their sources, charge density and current density - first appeared in fully developed form in his 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. This two-volume textbook brought together all the experimental and theoretical advances in the field of electricity and magnetism known at the time, and provided a methodical and graduated introduction to electromagnetism. Volume 1 covers the first elements of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory: electrostatics, and electrokinematics, including detailed analyses of electrolysis, conduction in three dimensions, and conduction through heterogeneous media.

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