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a treatise on electricity and magnetism volume 1

by Maxwell James Clerk

Professional & Technical » Engineering » Electrical & Electronics » Electricity Principles

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The first volume of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is an important work of physics as a science. It focuses on the theory of electromagnetism developed and improved by Maxwell as well as general positions of field theory. Though being written more than a century ago, the book is a wonderful reference for students and their teachers as the author possessed great knowledge in this part of physics. Besides, the book is not complicates, written with the usage of pretty simple vocabulary so it is quite easy to understand. Not without reason A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is believed to be a real masterpiece among other works devoted to physics.

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...drawn in determinate directions, and the line joining two points is in like manner considered as the resultant of three lines. II. ] VECTORS, OR DIRECTED QUANTITIES. 9 But for many purposes of physical reasoning 1, as distinguished from calculation, it is desirable to avoid explicitly introducing- the Cartesian coordinates, and to fix the mind at once on a point of space instead of its three coordinates, and on the magnitude and direction of a force instead of its three components. This mode of contemplating- geometrical and physical quantities is more prim- itive and more natural than the other, although the ideas connected with it did not receive their full development till Hamilton made the next great step in dealing with space, by the invention of his Calculus of Quaternions. As the methods of Des Cartes are still the most familiar to students of science, and as they are really the most useful for purposes of calculation, we shall express all our results in the Cartesian form. I am...