Clerk Maxwell and Modern Science. Six Commemorative Lectures by Sir Edward V. Appleton, E. G. Bowen, C. A. Coulson, R. E. Peierls, Sir John Randall, R. A. Smith.

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Published by London : Athlone Press, 1963

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118 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly bleached and rubbed jacket, annotations and markings in text, otherwise good. / Leicht verblichener und beriebener Umschlag, Anmerkungen und Markierungen im Text, sonst gut. - From 1860 until 1865 James Clerk Maxwell was Professor of Natural Philosophy at King s College, London, and there produced some of his most significant work, in particular the two classic papers in which he first put forward the concept of the electromagnetic theory of light. The six lectures here printed, which should appeal widely to teachers and students of physics, commemorate his work at King s College. They divide into two groups. In the first, Sir John Randall provides a general background description of Maxwell s life and work, R. E. Peierls surveys developments in electromagnetic field theory since Maxwell, and C. A. Coulson discusses four basic questions facing Maxwell in the sphere of intermolecular forces and how they have since been answered. The three lectures in the second group are devoted to fields of research which, though intimately connected with electromagnetic radiation and thus ultimately deriving from Maxwell s investigations, have only been developed in recent years, Sir Edward Appleton writes on radio and the ionosphere, E. G. Bowen on radio astronomy and giant telescopes, and R. A. Smith on the principles underlying the interaction of radiation with matter, the construction of masers and lasers, and the generation of coherent beams of light. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original hardcover with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1195513

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Title: Clerk Maxwell and Modern Science. Six ...

Publisher: London : Athlone Press

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Gut

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included