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Contents.
CHAPTER VI.
Faraday.
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Discovery of induced currents: lines of magnetic force,
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Self-induction,
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Identity of frictional and voltaic electricity: Faraday's views on the nature of electricity,
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Electro-chemistry,
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Controversy between the adherents of the chemical and contact hypotheses,
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The properties of dielectrics,
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Theory of dielectric polarization : Faraday, W. Thomson, and Mosgotti,
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The connexion between magnetism and light,
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Airy's theory of magnetic rotatory polarization,
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Faraday's Thoughts on Ray-Vibrations,
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Researches of Faraday and Plücker on diamagnetism,
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CHAPTER VII.
The Mathematical Electricians of the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.
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F. Neumann's theory of induced currents: the electrodynamic potential,
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W. Weber's theory of electrons,
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Riemann's law,
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Proposals to modify the law of gravitation,
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Weber's theory of paramagnetism and diamagnetism: later theories,
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Joule's law: energetics of the voltaic cell,
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Researches of Helmholtz on electrostatic and electrodynamic energy,
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W. Thomson distinguishes the circuital and irrotational magnetic vectors,
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His theory of magnecrystallic action,
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His formula for the energy of a magnetic field,
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Extension of this formula to the case of fields produced by currents,
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Kirchhoff identifies Ohm's electroscopic force with electrostatic potential,
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The discharge of a Leyden jar: W. Thomson's theory,
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The velocity of electricity and the propagation of telegraphic signals,
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Clausius' law of force between electric charges : crucial experiments,
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Nature of the current,
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The thermo-electric researches of Peltier and W. Thomson,
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