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Tables of Contents for Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Conventions and notations
xvii
Foundations
1
41
Introduction
1
5
Ampere's attractions
6
10
Faraday's rotations
16
7
Electro-dynamique
23
8
Electromagnetic induction
31
8
Conclusions
39
3
German precision
42
35
Introduction
42
1
Neumann's mathematical phenomenology
43
6
The Gaussian spirit
49
5
Weber's Maassbestimmungen
54
12
Kirchhoff compared with Weber
66
8
Conclusions
74
3
British fields
77
60
Introduction
77
1
Faraday's electrochemistry
78
7
Dielectrics
85
11
The magnetic lines of force
96
17
Thomson's potential
113
13
Thomson's magnetic field
126
8
Conclusions
134
3
Maxwell
137
40
Introduction
137
2
On Faraday's lines of force
139
8
On physical lines of force
147
7
The dynamical field
154
12
Exegi monumentum
166
6
Conclusions
172
5
British Maxwellians
177
32
Introduction
177
1
Thomson's antipathy
177
3
Picturing Maxwell
180
9
Modifying Maxwell's equations
189
5
A telegrapher's Maxwell
194
8
Electromagnetic waves
202
3
Conclusions
205
4
Open currents
209
56
Introduction
209
1
Continental foundations
210
4
Helmholtz's physics of principles
214
20
Hertz's response
234
18
The impact of Hertz's discovery
252
10
Conclusions
262
3
Conduction in electrolytes and gases
265
49
Introduction
265
1
Electrolysis
266
8
Discharge in rarefied gases
274
14
Gaseous ions
288
12
The cathode ray controversy
300
10
Conclusions
310
4
The electron theories
314
37
Introduction
314
1
Some optics of moving bodies
314
5
Helmholtz's ionic optics
319
3
Lorentz's synthesis
322
10
Larmor's reform
332
11
Wiechert's world-ether
343
4
Conclusions
347
4
Old principles and a new world-view
351
44
Introduction
351
1
Poincare's criticism
351
9
The descent into the electron
360
6
Alternative theories
366
6
Einstein on electrodynamics
372
20
Conclusions
392
3
Appendices
395
48
1 Ampere's forces
395
4
2 Absolute units
399
1
3 Neumann's potential
400
2
4 Weber's formula and consequences
402
4
5 Convective derivatives
406
4
6 Maxwell's stress system
410
2
7 Helmholtz's electrodynamics
412
8
8 Hertz's 1884 derivation of the Maxwell equations
420
2
9 Electrodynamic Lagrangians
422
7
10 Electric convection
429
5
11 Fresnel's coefficient
434
3
12 Cohn's electrodynamics
437
6
Abbreviations used in bibliographies
443
2
Bibliography of primary literature
445
40
Bibliography of secondary literature
485
30
Index
515