William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, though throughout his 53-year career as a mathematical physicist and engineer at the University of Glasgow he investigated a wide range of scientific questions in areas ranging from geology to transatlantic telegraph cables. The extent of his work is revealed in the six volumes of his Mathematical and Physical Papers, published from 1882 until 1911, consisting of articles that appeared in scientific periodicals from 1841 onwards. Volume 6, published in 1911, includes articles from the period 1867-1907. The chapters in the first part of the work focus on voltaic theory and radioactivity, while later ones examine navigation and tides.

Hydrodynamics
On vortex atoms
On vortex motion
The translatory velocity of a circular vortex ring
On the motion of free solids through a liquid
Influence of wind and capillarity on waves in water supposed frictionless
Ripples and waves
On the forces experienced by solids immersed in a moving liquid
On attractions and repulsions due to vibration
On the motion of rigid solids in a liquid circulating irrotationally through perforations in them or in a fixed solid
Vortex statics
On the precessional motion of a liquid
Floating magnets
On gravitational oscillations of rotating water
On the formation of coreless vortices by the motion of a solid through an inviscid incompressible fluid
Vibrations of a columnar vortex
On the stability of steady and of periodic fluid motion
On a disturbing infinity in Lord Rayleigh's solution for waves in a plane vortex stratum
On the average pressure due to impulse of vortex-rings on a solid
On the figures of equilibrium of a rotating mass of fluid
On the motion of a liquid within an ellipsoidal hollow
On the stability and small oscillation of a perfect liquid full of nearly straight coreless vortices
Towards the efficiency of sails, windmills, screw-propellers in water and air, and aeroplanes
On the resistance of a fluid to a plane kept moving uniformly in a direction inclined to it at a small angle
On the motion of a heterogeneous liquid, commencing from rest with a given motion of its boundary
On the doctrine of discontinuity of fluid motion, in connection with the resistance against a solid moving through a fluid
Theory of the Tides
On an alleged error in Laplace's Theory of the Tides
Note on the 'Oscillations of the First Species' in Laplace's Theory of the Tides
General integration of Laplace's differential equation of the tides
Waves on Water
On stationary waves in flowing water
On the waves produced by a single impulse in water of any depth, or in a dispersive medium
On the front and rear of a free procession of waves in deep water
On ship waves
On the propagation of laminar motion through a turbulently moving inviscid liquid
Rectilineal motion of viscous fluid between two parallel planes
On deep-water two-dimensional waves produced by any given initiating disturbance
On the front and rear of a free procession of waves in deep water
Deep water ship-waves
Deep sea ship-waves
Initiation of deep-sea waves of three classes
From a single displacement
From a group of equal and similar displacements
By a periodically varying surface-pressure
Physical explanation of the mackerel sky
General Dynamics
On some kinematical and dynamical theorems
On a new form of centrifugal governor
On a new astronomical clock, and a pendulum governor for uniform motion
On the perturbation of the compass produced by the rolling of the ship
On a new form of astronomical clock with free pendulum and independently governed uniform motion for escapement-wheel
Elasticity viewed as possibly a mode of motion
Steps towards a kinetic theory of matter
On a gyrostatic working model of the magnetic compass
Gyrostatic experiments
On some test cases for the Maxwell-Boltzmann doctrine regarding distribution of energy
On a decisive test-case disproving the Maxwell-Boltzmann doctrine distribution of kinetic energy
On periodic motion of a finite conservative system
On a theorem in plane kinetic trigonometry suggested by Gauss's theorem of curvatura integra
On the stability of periodic motion
On graphic solution of dynamical problems
Reduction of every problem of two freedoms in conservative dynamics to the drawing of geodetic lines on a surface of given specific curvature
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