INDEX.
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��Poisson s theory of magnetism, 427, 429, 431, 441, 832.
theory of wave-propagation, 784. Polar definition of magnetic force, 398. Polarity, 381.
Polarization, electrostatic, 59, 111.
electrolytic, 257, 264-272.
magnetic, 381.
of light, 381, 791.
circular, 813, Poles of a magnet, 373.
magnetic of the earth, 468. Positive and negative, conventions about,
23, 27, 36, 37, 63, 68-81, 231, 374, 394, 417, 489, 498. Potential, 16.
electric, 45, 70, 220.
magnetic, 383, 391.
of magnetization, 412.
of two circuits, 423.
of two circles, 698.
Potential, vector-, 405, 422, 590, 617,
657.
Principal axes, 299, 302. Problems, electrostatic, 155-205.
electrokinematic, 306-333.
magnetic, 431-441.
electromagnetic, 647-706.
Proof of the law of the Inverse Square,
74. Proof plane, 223.
��Quadrant electrometer, 219. Quadric surfaces, 147-154. Quantity, expression for a physical, 1. Quantities, classification of electromag netic, 620-629.
Quaternions, 11, 303, 490, 522. 618. Quinke, G., 316 n.
��Radiation, forces concerned in, 792. Rankine, W. J. M., 115, 831. Ray of electromagnetic disturbance, 791. Reciprocal properties, electrostatic, 88.
electrokinematic, 281, 348.
magnetic, 421, 423.
electromagnetic, 536L
kinetic, 565. Recoil, method of, 750. Residual charge, 327-334.
magnetization, 444. Replenishes 210.
Resistance of conductors, 51, 275.
tables of, 362-365.
equations of, 297.
unit of, 758-767.
electrostatic measure of, 355, 780. Resultant electric force at a point, 68. Riemann, Bernhard, 421, 862.
Right and left-hauded systems of axes, 23, 498, 501.
crcularly-polarized rays, 813. Ritchie, W., 542.
��Ritter s (J. \V.) Secondary Pile, 271. Rotation of plane of polarization, 806. magnetism, a phenomenon of, 821. Ruhlmann, R,, 370.
Rule of electromagnetic direction, 477, 494, 496.
��Scalar, 11.
Scale for mirror observations, 450.
Sectorial harmonic, 132, 138.
Seebeck, T. J., 250.
Selenium, 51, 362.
Self-induction, 7.
measurement of, 756, 778, 779.
coil of maximum, 706. Sensitive galvanometer, 717. Series of observations, 746, 750.
Shell, magnetic, 409, 484, 485, 606, 652,
670, 694, 696. Siemens, C. W., 336, 361. Sines, method of, 455, 710. Singular points, 128. Slope, 17. Smee, A., 272. Smith, Archibald, 441. Smith, W. R., 123, 316. Soap bubble, 125. Solenoid, magnetic, 407.
electromagnetic, 676-681, 727. Solenoidal distribution, 21, 82, 407. Solid angle, 409, 417-422, 485, 695. Space- variation, 17, 71, 835. Spark, 57, 370.
Specific inductive capacity, 52, 83, 94, 111, 229, 325, 334, 627, 788.
conductivity, 278, 627.
resistance, 277, 627.
heat of electricity, 253. Sphere, 125.
Spherical harmonics, 128-146, 391, 431. Spiral, logarithmic, 731. Standard electrometer, 217.
galvanometer, 708. Stokes, G. G., 24, 115, 784. Stoney, G. J., 5. Stratified conductors, 319. Stress, electrostatic, 107, 111.
electrokinetic, 641, 645, 646. Strutt, Hon. J. W., 102, 306. Surface-integral, 15, 21, 75, 402.
density, 64, 78, 223.
Surface, equipotential, 46.
electrified, 78. Suspended coil, 721-729. Suspension, bifilar, 45B.
Joule s, 463.
Thomson s, 721.
unifilar, 449.
��Tables of coefficients of a coil, 700.
of dimensions, 621-629.
of electromotive force, 358.
of magnetic rotation, 830.
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