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Convection-currents: Rowland's experiments,
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339 |
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The moving charged sphere: researches of J.J. Thomson, FitzGerald, and Heaviside,
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310 |
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Conduction of rapidly-alternating currents,
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344 |
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FitzGerald devises the magnetic radiator,
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345 |
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Poynting's theorem,
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347 |
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Poynting and J.J. Thomson develop the theory of moving lines of force,
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349 |
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Mechanical momentum in the electromagnetic field,
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352 |
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Now derivation of Maxwell's equations by Hertz,
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333 |
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Hertz's assumptions and Weber's theory,
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356 |
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Experiments of Hertz on electric waves,
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357 |
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The memoirs of Hertz and Heaviside on fields in which material bodies are in motion,
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365 |
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The current of dielectric convection,
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367 |
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Kerr's magneto-optic phenomenon,
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368 |
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Rowland's theory of magneto-optics,
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369 |
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The rotation of the plane of polarization in naturally active bodies,
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CHAPTER XI.
Conduction in Solutions and Gases, from Faraday to J. J. Thomson.
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The hypothesis of Williamson and Clausius,
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372 |
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Migration of the ions,
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373 |
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The researches of Hittorf and Kohlrausch,
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374 |
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Polarization of electrodes,
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375 |
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Electrocapillarity,
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376 |
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Single differences of potential,
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379 |
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Helmholtz' theory of concentration-cells,
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381 |
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Arrhonius' hypothesis,
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The researches of Nernst,
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386 |
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Earlier investigations of the discharge in rarefied gases,
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390 |
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Faraday observes the dark space,
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Researches of Plücker, Hittorf, Goldstein, and Varley, on the cathode rays,
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Crookes and the fourth state of matter,
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394 |
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Objections and alternatives to the charged-particle theory of cathode rays,
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395 |
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Giese's and Schuster's ionic theory of conduction in gases,
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J.J. Thomson measures the velocity of cathode rays,
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