Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory
Subtitle: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 31, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780521353656
Subjects: Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; History of science; Science/Mathematics; Electromagnetism; History Of Physics; Science; Waves & Wave Mechanics; Technology / General; History; Electromagnetic theory; Physics
First sentence: The first half of the nineteenth century was marked by the discovery of a variety of new phenomena in electricity and magnetism, and the general task to which Maxwell then addressed himself, beginning in the 1850s, was the development of a unified electromagnetic theory that would incorporate all of these phenomena.