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An Elementary Treatise on Electricity: Second Edition
by James Clerk Maxwell

ISBN: 0486438848
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Describes experiments that demonstrate the principal facts relating an electric charge as a quantity capable of being measured, deductions from these facts, and the exhibition of electrical phenomena. It is supplemented by a selection of articles from his landmark book, Electricity and Magnetism. 53 figures. 6 plates. 1888 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second edition published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1888.

Table of Contents for An Elementary Treatise on Electricity: Second Edition
I. [No title]
II. On the Charges of Electrified Bodies
III. On Electrical Work and Energy
IV. The Electric Field
V. Faraday’s Law of Lines of Induction
VI. Particular Cases of Electrification
VII. Electrical Images
VIII. Capacity
IX. Electric Current
X. Phenomena of an Electric Current Which Flows Through Heterogeneous Media
XI. Methods of Maintaining an Electric Current
XII. On the Measurement of Electric Resistance
XIII. On the Electric Resistance of Substances

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