Mathematical and Physical Papers

by Thomsom, William; Larmor, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781108029032
• ISBN10: 1108029035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Voltaic Theory, Radioactivity, Electrions

On Volta-convection by flame

Electrification of air by flame

On the velocity of Crookes' cathode stream

On the electrification of air

Preliminary experiments to find if subtraction of water from air electrifies it

Electrification of air and other gases by bubbling through water and other liquids

On the diselectrification of air

On the electrification of air

On the electrification and diselectrification of air and other gases

On the generation of longitudinal waves in ether

On Lippmann's colour photography with obliquely incident light

On measurements of electric currents through air at different densities down to one five-millionth of the density of ordinary air

On the communication of electricity from electrified steam to air

Experiments on the electrical phenomena produced in gases by Röntgen rays, by ultra-violet light, and by uranium

Continuation of experiments on electric properties of uranium

On electrical properties of fumes proceeding from flames and burning charcoal

Contact electricity of metals

Note to 'The electrification of air by uranium and its compounds'

Electrification of air, of vapour of water, and of other gases

Leakage from electrified metal plates and points placed above and below uninsulated flames

Nineteenth century clouds over the dynamical theory of heat and light

On the motion produced in an infinite elastic solid by the motion through the space occupied by it of a body acting on it only by attraction or repulsion

On the duties of ether for electricity and magnetism

Aepinus atomized

Becquerel rays and radioactivity

Contribution to B.A. discussion on the nature of the emanations from radium

On the destruction of cambric by radium emanations

Electrical insulation in 'vacuum'

Plan of a combination of atoms having the properties of polonium or radium

On the statistical kinetic equilibrium of ether in ponderable matter at any temperature

Plan of an atom to be capable of storing an electrion with enormous energy for radioactivity

An attempt to explain the radioactivity of radium

On the motions of ether produced by collisions of atoms or molecules, containing or not containing electrions

Navigations and Tides

On the determination of a ship's place from observations of altitude

Amended rule for working out Sumner's method of finding a ship's place

On a septum permeable to water and impermeable to air, with practical applications to a navigational depth-gauge

On the new navigational sounding machine and depth-gauge

The tide gauge, tidal harmonic analyser, and tide predicter

Miscellaneous

Archibald Smith, and the magnetism of ships

H. C. Fleeming Jenkin

The scientific work of Sir George Stokes [Obituary notice]

James Watt

Peter Guthrie Tait

Address as Chancellor at Glasgow

Index

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