Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon

Name: Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon | The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
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The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

Brian Clegg(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 7. Februar 2019

304 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Demonic Interlude I: In which the demon is summoned
Chapter 1: Not a little uncouth in his manners
Edinburgh and Glenlair
The Academy
The young mathematician
Churchman and country squire
The university life
A particular light
The path to Cambridge
Demonic Interlude II: In which electricity meets magnetism
Natural electricity
From the skies to the laboratory
Magnetic matter
The birth of electromagnetism
A matter of speculation
Chapter 2: A most original young man
Stepping up to Trinity
Becoming an Apostle
Cats and rhymes
The Wranglers
Colour vision
The true primaries
A peculiar inability
Quantifying Faraday's fields
For the benefit of working men
A new destination
Demonic Interlude III: In which atoms become real and heat gets moving
Atoms exist
A better model of heat
Chapter 3: The young professor
A city divided
His lectures were terrible
Lord of the rings
Life in Aberdeen
E pur si muove
Statistics to the rescue
A new family
Accommodating the British Ass
Leaving Aberdeen
Demonic Interlude IV: In which the demon's challenge is posed
The tyranny of the second law
The demon is summoned
Doing it without energy
Chapter 4: A capital adventure
Science at King's
Bring colour to the Institution
Electromagnetism goes mechanical
Maxwell's electromagnetic spheres
Vortices and idle wheels
The power of analogy
Demonic Interlude V: In which the demon becomes a star
Victorian computer dating
The demon's catechism
Chapter 5: Seeing the light
The power of flexible cells
Waves in the ether
Seeing the light
Too heavy for one person to discharge
The Great London Exposition
Chapter 6: Science by numbers
The viscosity engine
Stereoscopes and coffins
A standard for resistance
The velocity of a resistor
Electromagnetism without visible support
In the mathematical belfry
A new physics
The beautiful equations
Getting away from it all
Demonic Interlude VI: In which the demon suffers a setback
The cost of measurement
Chapter 7: On the estate
Glenlair life
Back to viscosity
The wine merchant's batteries
Meet the governor
Thinking in four dimensions
The life academic
Chapter 8: Cambridge beckons
The Cavendish connection
A different professor
The last second home
Ancient lights and modern physics
A slow start
Women in the laboratory
Demonic Interlude VII: In which the demon's memory is challenged
Forgetting is never easy
Chapter 9: The last work
Books and the power of light
The Cavendish papers
Passing fancies
A sudden end
Demonic Interlude VIII: In which the demon lives on to fight another day
The reality of loopholes
Chapter 10: The legacy
Index
About the Author
Also by Brian Clegg
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