Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781616149437
Description: From the Introduction...

It is almost impossible to overstate the scale of Faraday and Maxwell's achievement in bringing the concept of the electromagnetic field into human thought. It united electricity, magnetism, and light into a single, compact theory; changed our way of life by bringing us radio, television, radar, satellite navigation, and mobile phones; inspired Einstein's special theory of relativity; and introduced the idea of field equations, which became the standard form used by today's physicists to model what goes on in the vastness of space and inside atoms.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments; label: Chronology
title: Principal Events in the Story of the Electromagnetic Field; label: Introduction; label: 1
title: The Apprentice: 1791–1813; label: 2
title: Chemistry: 1813–1820; label: 3
title: History: 1600–1820; label: 4
title: A Circular Force: 1820–1831; label: 5
title: Induction: 1831–1840; label: 6
title: A Shadow of a Speculation: 1840–1857; label: 7
title: Faraday's Last Years: 1857–1867; label: 8
title: What's the Go o' That? 1831–1850; label: 9
title: Society and Drill: 1850–1854; label: 10
title: An Imaginary Fluid: 1854–1856; label: 11
title: No Jokes Are Understood Here: 1856–1860; label: 12
title: The Speed of Light: 1860–1863; label: 13
title: Great Guns: 1863–1865; label: 14
title: Country Life: 1865–1871; label: 15
title: The Cavendish: 1871–1879; label: 16
title: The Maxwellians: 1850–1890; label: 17
title: A New Epoch: 1890 Onward; label: Notes; label: Bibliography; label: Index