Electromagnetic TheoryEnglishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication, including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume I was first published in 1893. This is a catalog of the bulk of his postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions) in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article form. Part scientific history-including references to some contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex applied science, this work shows both the genius and the eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering. |
Contents
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| 26 | |
March 13 1891 Crossconnections of Electric and Magnetic | 32 |
March 27 1891 Classification of Impressed Forces | 38 |
April 17 1891 Connection between Motional Electric Force | 44 |
A Moving Source equivalent to a Convection Current and makes | 51 |
Field | 57 |
May 29 1891 General Remarks on the Circuital Laws | 62 |
148 | 191 |
The Operation inverse to Divergence | 212 |
June 24 1892 The Elastic Solid generalised to include | 226 |
Electromagnetic and Elastic Solid Comparisons First | 232 |
Modification of the Second and Fourth | 239 |
Magnetic Force compared with | 245 |
Unintelligibility of the Rotational Analogue for a Conducting | 252 |
Geometrical Illustrations The Sphere and Ellipsoid Inverse | 259 |
General Nature of Electrified Spherical Electromagnetic Sheet | 63 |
Introduction of the Second Circuital | 68 |
Examples Convection of Energy and Flux of Energy due to | 74 |
Extension to a Moving Medium Full interpretation of | 80 |
20 | 81 |
Aug 21 1891 Electric Field disturbed by Foreign Body | 93 |
Movement of Insulators in Electric Field Effect on the Stored | 99 |
Force on Intrinsically Electrised Matter | 106 |
Dependence of the Fluxes due to an Impressed Forcive upon | 110 |
Oct 16 1891 The Eruption of 4 | 116 |
A Plea for the Removal of the Eruption by the Radical Cure | 122 |
CHAPTER III | 132 |
Abolition of the Minus Sign of Quaternions | 138 |
June 10 1892 Energy and other Equivalences in the Diver | 141 |
Application to Physical Vectors Futility of Popular Demon | 147 |
Reciprocal of a Vector | 155 |
Examples relating to Vector Products | 162 |
Sept 16 1892 Theory of Displacement in an Eolotropic | 163 |
Tortuosity of a Curve and Various Forms of Expansion | 169 |
121 | 176 |
Motion of Systems of Displacement | 183 |
Feb 24 1893 Conductors at Low Temperatures | 185 |
Extension of the Theorem of Divergence | 190 |
Theory of the Relative Motion of Electrification and | 269 |
Theory of the Relative Motion of Magnetisation and | 277 |
The General Linear Operator | 283 |
Nov 18 1892 Hamiltons Cubic and the Invariants con | 289 |
Dec 9 1892 Summary of Method of Vector Analysis | 295 |
General Notions about Electromagnetic Waves Generation | 310 |
Selfcontained Forced Electromagnetic Vibrations Contrast | 316 |
Effect of a NonConducting Obstacle on Waves Also of | 323 |
Equilibrium of Radiation The Mean Flux of Energy | 331 |
March 24 1893 The Effect of Conducting Matter | 344 |
April 7 1893 Effect of a Thin Plane Conducting Sheet | 353 |
The Laws of Attenuation at the Front of a Wave due | 364 |
Application to Waves along Straight Wires | 374 |
Transformation of the Circuital Equations to the Forms | 381 |
The Second Circuital Equation when Penetration is Not | 390 |
The Guidance of Waves Usually Two Guides One sufficient | 399 |
212 | 417 |
Oct 20 1893 SelfInduction imparts Momentum to Wares | 429 |
Various ways good and bad of increasing the Inductance | 441 |
General Theory of Transmission of Waves along a Circuit with | 449 |
APPENDIX | 455 |
July 14 1898 | 463 |
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