A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts Volume III: Electricity, Magnetism and Light /

• Main Author: Kuehn, Kerry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Atoms.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

This book provides a chronological introduction to the electromagnetic theory of light, using selected extracts from classic texts such as Gilbert’s De Magnete, Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity, and Huygens’ Treatise on Light. Particular attention is given to the works of Farad...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Iron, Loadstones and Terrestrial Magnetism
• The Life and Death of a Magnet
• Conservation of Electrical Charge
• Muschenbroek's Wonderful Bottle
• Thunder and Lightning
• Coulomb's Law
• The Dawn of Electro-Magnetism
• Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces
• Work and Weight
• Kinetic and Potential Energy
• Conservation of Energy.