| Weber's Electrodynamics 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Assis, A. K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792331370 ISBN-13: 9780792331377 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $284.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: This volume is a substantially complete presentation of the electrodynamics developed by Wilhelm Weber. Weber's force between point charges is explored and thoroughly analysed. Amp??re's force between current elements is discussed in connection with modern experiments relating to the Amp??re versus Grassmann--Biot--Savart controversy. Amp??re's force is a central feature of this work, as Maxwell maintained it should always be in the study of electrodynamics, although it is included in few textbooks on electromagnetism. A detailed study of this force is an outstanding feature of this book. Other topical questions of physics are analysed, such as a potential-dependent inertial mass, Mach's principle and the origin of inertia, action at a distance as opposed to contact actions, etc. No previous knowledge of the subject is required, and all topics are introduced with both their historical backgrounds as well as modern experimental evidence. This volume will appeal to physicists, mathematicians, electrical and electronic engineers, historians and philosophers of science. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Electromagnetism - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Mathematics | Applied |
| Dewey: 537.6 |
| LCCN: 94032309 |
| Series: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.51" W x 9.51" (1.18 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Great progress has been made in electrical science, chiefly in Germany, by cultivators of the theory of action at a distance. The valuable electrical measurements of W. Weber are interpreted by him according to this theory, and the electromagnetic speculation which was originated by Gauss, and carried on by Weber, Riemann, F. and C. Neumann, Lorenz, etc., is founded on the theory of action at a distance, but depending either directly on the relative velocity of the particles, or on the gradual propagation of something, whether potential or force, from the one particle to the other. The great success which these eminent men have attained in the application of mathematics to electrical phenomena, gives, as is natural, additional weight to their theoretical speculations, so that those who, as students of electricity, turn to them as the greatest authorities in mathematical electricity, would probably imbibe, along with their mathematical methods, their physical hypothesis. These physical hypotheses, however, are entirely alien from the way of looking at things which I adopt, and one object which I have in view is that some of those who wish to study electricity may, by reading this treatise, come to see that there is another way of treating the subject, which is no less fitted to explain the phenomena, and which, though in some parts it may appear less definite, corresponds, as I think, more faithfuHy with our actual knowledge, both in what it affirms and in what it leaves undecided. |