Dealing with the resurgence of 19th-century electromagnetism in physics and electrical engineering, this text describes a series of important experiments, and new technologies based on these experiments, which cannot be explained and analyzed with the modern relativistic electrodynamics of the 20th century. The Newtonian electrodynamics of Coulomb, Ampere, Neumann and Kirchhoff, which was current from 1750 to 1900, is fully reviewed and extended to deal with contemporary research of exploding wires, railguns and other electromagnetic accelerators, jet propulsion in liquid metals, arc plasma...
Dealing with the resurgence of 19th-century electromagnetism in physics and electrical engineering, this text describes a series of important experime...
This is a book about the history of the science of inertia. Nobody denies the existence of the forces of inertia, but they are branded as "fictitious" because they do not fit smoothly into modern physics. Named by Kepler and given mathematical form by Newton, the force of inertia remains aloof because it has no obvious local cause. At the end of the 19th century, Ernst Mach bravely claimed that the inertia of an object was the result of its instantaneous interaction with all matter in the universe. Many other well-known physicists, including Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes and Einstein, are...
This is a book about the history of the science of inertia. Nobody denies the existence of the forces of inertia, but they are branded as "fictitious"...
