Professor Maxwell’s duplicitous demon the life and acience of James Clerk Maxwell
The great conundrum that has taxed the finest minds in physics
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The great conundrum that has taxed the finest minds in physics Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Demonic Interlude I: In which the demon is summoned -- Chapter 1: Not a little uncouth in his manners -- Edinburgh and Glenlair -- The Academy -- The young mathematician -- Churchman and country squire -- The university life -- A particular light -- The path to Cambridge -- Demonic Interlude II: In which electricity meets magnetism -- Natural electricity -- From the skies to the laboratory -- Magnetic matter -- The birth of electromagnetism -- A matter of speculation -- Chapter 2: A most original young man -- Stepping up to Trinity -- Becoming an Apostle -- Cats and rhymes -- The Wranglers -- Colour vision -- The true primaries -- A peculiar inability -- Quantifying Faraday's fields -- For the benefit of working men -- A new destination -- Demonic Interlude III: In which atoms become real and heat gets moving -- Atoms exist -- A better model of heat -- Chapter 3: The young professor -- A city divided -- His lectures were terrible -- Lord of the rings -- Life in Aberdeen -- E pur si muove -- Statistics to the rescue -- A new family -- Accommodating the British Ass -- Leaving Aberdeen -- Demonic Interlude IV: In which the demon's challenge is posed -- The tyranny of the second law -- The demon is summoned -- Doing it without energy -- Chapter 4: A capital adventure -- Science at King's -- Bring colour to the Institution -- Electromagnetism goes mechanical -- Maxwell's electromagnetic spheres -- Vortices and idle wheels -- The power of analogy -- Demonic Interlude V: In which the demon becomes a star -- Victorian computer dating -- The demon's catechism -- Chapter 5: Seeing the light -- The power of flexible cells -- Waves in the ether -- Seeing the light -- Too heavy for one person to discharge -- The Great London Exposition -- Chapter 6: Science by numbers -- The viscosity engine Stereoscopes and coffins -- A standard for resistance -- The velocity of a resistor -- Electromagnetism without visible support -- In the mathematical belfry -- A new physics -- The beautiful equations -- Getting away from it all -- Demonic Interlude VI: In which the demon suffers a setback -- The cost of measurement -- Chapter 7: On the estate -- Glenlair life -- Back to viscosity -- The wine merchant's batteries -- Meet the governor -- Thinking in four dimensions -- The life academic -- Chapter 8: Cambridge beckons -- The Cavendish connection -- A different professor -- The last second home -- Ancient lights and modern physics -- A slow start -- Women in the laboratory -- Demonic Interlude VII: In which the demon's memory is challenged -- Forgetting is never easy -- Chapter 9: The last work -- Books and the power of light -- The Cavendish papers -- Passing fancies -- A sudden end -- Demonic Interlude VIII: In which the demon lives on to fight another day -- The reality of loopholes -- Chapter 10: The legacy -- Index -- About the Author -- Also by Brian Clegg -- Copyright |
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| Beschreibung: | vii, 293 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781785784958 978-1-78578-495-8 |