Electrodynamics from Ampre to Einstein

Cover......Page 1
Front Flap......Page 2
Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein......Page 3
Copyright......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Contents......Page 15
Conventions and notations......Page 19
1 Foundations......Page 23
2 German precision......Page 64
3 British fields......Page 99
4 Maxwell......Page 159
5 British Maxwellians......Page 199
6 Open currents......Page 231
7 Conduction in electrolytes and gases......Page 287
8 The electron theories......Page 336
9 Old principles and a new world-view......Page 373
Appendix 1 Ampere\'s forces......Page 417
Appendix 2 Absolute units......Page 421
Appendix 3 Neumann\'s potential......Page 422
Appendix 4 Weber\'s formula and consequences......Page 424
Appendix 5 Convective derivatives......Page 428
Appendix 6 Maxwell\'s stress system......Page 432
Appendix 7 Helmholtz\'s electrodynamics......Page 434
Appendix 8 Hertz\'s 1884 derivation of the Maxwell equations......Page 442
Appendix 9 Electrodynamic Lagrangians......Page 444
Appendix 10 Electric convection......Page 451
Appendix 11 Fresnel\'s coefficient......Page 456
Appendix 12 Cohn\'s electrodynamics......Page 459
Abbreviations used in bibliographies......Page 465
Bibliography of primary literature......Page 467
Bibliography of secondary literature......Page 507
Index......Page 537
Back Flap......Page 559
Back Cover......Page 560