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Paris, Plon, 1988. 16 x 24, 461 pp., broché, bon état (couverture légèrement défraîchie).
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Garber (Elizabeth), Brush (Stephen G.) and Everitt (C.W.F.) - James Clerk Maxwell
Reference : 100203
(1986)
Maxwell on Molecules and Gases , (James Clerk Maxwell)
The MIT Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1986 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full black clothes binding, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 592 pages
few text-figures 1st edition, 1986 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of serial abbreviations, preface, xxvii, Text, 565 pages - Kinetic theory and the properties of gases : Maxwell's work in its Nineteenth-century context - Documents on atomic and statistical physics - Documents on the kinetic theory of gases (Letters, notes, postcard, various documents) - James Clerk Maxwell (13 juin 1831 à Édimbourg en Écosse - 5 novembre 1879 à Cambridge en Angleterre) est un physicien et mathématicien écossais. Il est principalement connu pour avoir unifié en un seul ensemble d'équations, les équations de Maxwell, l'électricité, le magnétisme et l'induction, en incluant une importante modification du théorème d'Ampère. Ce fut à l'époque le modèle le plus unifié de l'électromagnétisme. Il est également célèbre pour avoir interprété, dans un article en quatre parties publié dans Philosophical Magazine intitulé On Physical Lines of Force, la lumière comme étant un phénomène électromagnétique en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Michael Faraday. Il a notamment démontré que les champs électriques et magnétiques se propagent dans l'espace sous la forme d'une onde et à la vitesse de la lumière. Ces deux découvertes permirent d'importants travaux ultérieurs notamment en relativité restreinte et en mécanique quantique. Il a également développé la distribution de Maxwell, une méthode statistique de description de la théorie cinétique des gaz. Maxwell est considéré par de nombreux physiciens comme le scientifique du xixe siècle ayant eu le plus d'influence au xxe siècle. Ses contributions à la science sont considérées par certains comme aussi importantes que celles d'Isaac Newton ou d'Albert Einstein. En 1931, pour le centenaire de la naissance de Maxwell, Einstein lui-même décrivait les travaux de Maxwell comme les « plus profonds et fructueux que la physique ait connus depuis le temps de Newton ». Il est également connu pour avoir réalisé le 17 mai 1861 la première photographie en vraie couleur devant les membres de la Royal Institution de Londres. - Une des contributions les plus importantes de Maxwell est la théorie cinétique des gaz. Initiée par Daniel Bernoulli, cette théorie a ensuite été développée successivement par John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule et surtout Rudolf Clausius, jusqu'à être largement acceptée. Néanmoins elle reçut un développement important de la part de Maxwell. En 1866, il formule, indépendamment de Ludwig Boltzmann, la théorie cinétique des gaz dite de Maxwell-Boltzmann. Sa formule, appelée distribution de Maxwell, donne la proportion des molécules d'un gaz se développant à une certaine vitesse à une température donnée. Cette approche généralise les lois de la thermodynamique et permet d'expliquer statistiquement un certain nombre d'observations expérimentales. Les travaux de Maxwell en thermodynamique l'amènent également à formuler l'expérience de pensée appelée le démon de Maxwell. En 1871 il établit les relations thermodynamiques de Maxwell, qui expriment l'égalité entre certaines dérivées secondes des potentiels thermodynamiques par rapport à différentes variables thermodynamiques. En 1874, il construit un moulage en plâtre afin de visualiser les transitions de phase, modèle basé sur les méthodes graphiques de thermodynamique avancées par le chercheur américain Josiah Willard Gibbs. (source : Wikipedia) very good copy, the editor's binding is clean and unmarked, very lightly dusty on the borders, it remains clean, inside is fine no markings, no dust-jacket
Les théories électriques de James Clerk Maxwell - Etude historique et critique
Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann à Paris Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1902 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grise grand In-8 1 vol. - 228 pages
1ere édition de 1902 Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - 1. Les électrostatiques de Maxwell : Les propriétés fondamentales des diélectriques, les doctrines de Faraday et Mossotti - La première électrostatique de Maxwell - La deuxième électrostatique de Maxwell - La troisième électrostatique de Maxwell - 2. L'électrodynamique de Maxwell : Flux de conduction et flux de déplacement - Les six équations de Maxwell et l'énergie électromagnétique - La théorie électromagnétique de la lumière - Conclusion - - James Clerk Maxwell (13 juin 1831 à Édimbourg en Écosse - 5 novembre 1879 à Cambridge en Angleterre) est un physicien et mathématicien écossais. Il est principalement connu pour avoir unifié en un seul ensemble d'équations, les équations de Maxwell, l'électricité, le magnétisme et l'induction, en incluant une importante modification du théorème d'Ampère. Ce fut à l'époque le modèle le plus unifié de l'électromagnétisme. Il est également célèbre pour avoir interprété, dans un article en quatre parties publié dans Philosophical Magazine intitulé On Physical Lines of Force, la lumière comme étant un phénomène électromagnétique en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Michael Faraday. Il a notamment démontré que les champs électriques et magnétiques se propagent dans l'espace sous la forme d'une onde et à la vitesse de la lumière. Ces deux découvertes permirent d'importants travaux ultérieurs notamment en relativité restreinte et en mécanique quantique. Il a également développé la distribution de Maxwell, une méthode statistique de description de la théorie cinétique des gaz. Maxwell est considéré par de nombreux physiciens comme le scientifique du xixe siècle ayant eu le plus d'influence au xxe siècle. Ses contributions à la science sont considérées par certains comme aussi importantes que celles d'Isaac Newton ou d'Albert Einstein. En 1931, pour le centenaire de la naissance de Maxwell, Einstein lui-même décrivait les travaux de Maxwell comme les « plus profonds et fructueux que la physique ait connus depuis le temps de Newton ». Il est également connu pour avoir réalisé le 17 mai 1861 la première photographie en vraie couleur devant les membres de la Royal Institution de Londres. - Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, né le 10 juin 1861 à Paris 2e et mort le 14 septembre 1916 à Cabrespine, est un physicien, chimiste, historien et épistémologue français. (source : Wikipedia) couverture en bon état mais avec un petit trou de 1 cm de diametre environ sur le haut du plat inférieur, infime déchirure sans manque sur le bord gauche du plat supérieur, affectant à peine le bord du dos sur 1 cm, la couverture reste en bon état, intérieur sinon frais et propre, papier à peine jauni
""On the Dynamical Theory of Gases."" Received May 16, - Read May 31, 1866. - [THE ""MAXWELL-DISTRIBUTION""S FINAL FORM - A MAIN PAPER IN 19TH CENTURY PHYSICS.]
London, Taylor and Francis, 1867. 4to. Extracted and rebound in recent green plain wrappers. Title-page of vol. 157 pasted on to front wrapper. A fine copy. Pp. 49-88.
First appearance of this seminal paper (in its full version from ""Transactions""), representing the announcement of Maxwell's final ""Theory of Gases"" and introduces the ""Maxwell Distribution"" in its final form, a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases, a theory, together with his electromagnetic theory, are considered to be SOME OF THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN PHYSICS OF ALL TIMES. Everett considers this paper (1868) to be Maxwell's greatest single paper. Maxwell's discoveries laid the foundations of special relativity and quantum mechanics.One of Maxwell's major investigations was on the kinetic theory of gases. Originating with Daniel Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt" but it received enormous development from Maxwell, who in this field appeared as an experimenter (on the laws of gaseous friction) as well as a mathematician.In 1866, he formulated statistically, independently of Ludwig Boltzmann, the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases. His formula, called the Maxwell distribution, gives the fraction of gas molecules moving at a specified velocity at any given temperature. In the kinetic theory, temperatures and heat involve only molecular movement. This approach generalized the previously established laws of thermodynamics and explained existing observations and experiments in a better way than had been achieved previously. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to devise the Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) that came to be known as Maxwell's demon.
On Faraday's Lines of Force. - [MAXWELL'S VERY FIRST PAPER ON ELECTROMAGNETISM]
London, Taylor and Francis, 1864. 4to. In plain white paper-wrappers with title-page of journal volume pasted on to front wrapper. In ""Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society"", Volume 10. Fine and clean. Pp. (27)-83, (1) + the pasted on title-page.
First appearance of Maxwell's landmark - and his very first published on electromagnetism - paper in which he anticipates many of the fundamental ideas presented in his famous four-part paper ""On Physical Lines of Force"" (1861-2) in which he derived the equations of electromagnetism. The present paper ushered in a new era of classical electrodynamics and catalyzed further progress in the mathematical field of vector calculus. Because of this, it is considered one of the most historically significant publications in the field of physics and of science in general.Maxwell began his researches on electromagnetism following the completion of his studies at Cambridge in 1854. They were aimed at constructing, at a theoretical level, a unified mathematical theory of electric and magnetic phenomena that would express the methods and ideas of Faraday as an alternative to the theory of Weber."" This programme was announced in his first article, 'On Faraday's lines of force', in 1856, and continued in two other major texts, 'On physical lines of force' in 1861-1862 and 'A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field' in 1865. According to a famous passage in its preface, the Treatise (1873) represented the outcome of this programme"" (Landmark Writings, p. 569). ""Maxwell's first paper, ""On Faraday's Line of Force"" (1855-1856), was divided into two parts, with supplementary) examples. Its origin may he traced in a long correspondence with Thomson, edited by Larmor in 1936. Part 1 was an exposition of the analogy between lines of force and streamlines in an incompressible fluid. It contained one notable extension to Thomson's treatment of the subject and also an illuminating opening discourse on the philosophical significance of analogies between different branches of physics. This was a theme to which Maxwell returned more than once. His biographers print in full an essay entitled ""Analogies in Nature,"" which he read a few months later (February 1856) to the famous Apostles Club at Cambridge" this puts the subject in a wider setting and deserves careful reading despite its involved and cryptic style. Here, as elsewhere, Maxwell's metaphysical speculation discloses the influence of Sir William Hamilton, specifically of Hamilton's Kantian view that all human knowledge is of relations rather than of things. The use Maxwell saw in the method of analogy was twofold. It crossfertilized technique between different fields, and it served as a golden mean between analytic abstraction and the method of hypothesis. The essence of analogy (in contrast with identity) being partial resemblance, its limits must be recognized as clearly as its existence" yet analogies may help in guarding against too facile commitment to a hypothesis. The analogy of an electric current to two phenomena as different as conduction of heat and the motion of a fluid should, Maxwell later observed, prevent physicists from hastily assuming that ""electricity is either a substance like water, or a state of agitation like heat. ""The analogy is geometrical: ""a similarity between relations, not a similarity between the things related."""" (DSB)The 1856 paper has been eclipsed by Maxwell's later work, but its originality and importance are greater than is usually thought. Besides interpreting Faraday's work and giving the electrotonic function, it contained the germ of a number of ideas which Maxwell was to revive or modify in 1868 and later an integral representation of the field equations (1868),the treatment of electrical action as analogous to the motion of an incompressible fluid (1869, 1873), the classification of vector functions into forces and fluxes (1870), and an interesting formal symmetry in the equations connecting A, B, E, and H, different from the symmetry commonly recognized in the completed field equations. The paper ended with solutions to a series of problems, including an application of the electrotonic function to calculate the action of a magnetic field on a spinning conducting sphere.
Cavendish Laboratory - T.C. Fitzpatrick - Arthur Schuster on Clerk Maxwell - R.T. Glazebrook on Rayleigh - Sir Joseph John Thomson - H.F. Newall - Ernest Rutherford - C.T.R. Wilson - N.R. Campbell - L. R. Wilberforce
Reference : 100740
(1910)
A History of the Cavendish Laboratory 1871-1900 , (The building of the laboratory - The Clerk Maxwell period - The Rayleigh period - Survey of the last 20 years - The development of the teaching of physics - List of memoirs containing accounts of research performed in the Cavendish Laboratory - List of thoses who have worked in the Laboratory)
Longmans, Green and Co, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1910 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full green clothes, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 353 pages
1 plate in frontispiece, 3 collotype plates (portraits of James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh and Joseph John Thomson) and 7 other plates of the laboratory (complete of the 11 plates) 1st edition, 1910 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, List of Illustrations, xi, Text, 342 pages, catalogue Longmans, ii - T.C. Fitzpatrick : The building of the laboratory - Arthur Schuster : The Clerk Maxwell period - R.T. Glazebrook : The Rayleigh period - Sir Joseph John Thomson : Survey of the last 20 years - H.F. Newall : 1885-1894 - Ernest Rutherford : 1895-1898 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson : 1899-1902 - N.R. Campbell : 1903-1909 - L. R. Wilberforce : The development of the teaching of physics - List of memoirs containing accounts of research performed in the Cavendish Laboratory - List of thoses who have worked in the Laboratory - Index - Le laboratoire Cavendish (Cavendish Laboratory) est le département de physique de l'université de Cambridge. Il fait partie de l'école de sciences physiques. Il a ouvert en 1874 comme l'un des premiers laboratoires d'enseignement en Angleterre. Son nom honore Henry Cavendish, fameux physicien anglais de la fin du xviiie siècle. - The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. The laboratory has had a huge influence on research in the disciplines of physics and biology. As of 2019, 30 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes. Notable discoveries to have occurred at the Cavendish Laboratory include the discovery of the electron, neutron, and structure of DNA. - Professor James Clerk Maxwell, the developer of electromagnetic theory, was a founder of the laboratory and the first Cavendish Professor of Physics. The Duke of Devonshire had given to Maxwell, as head of the laboratory, the manuscripts of Henry Cavendish's unpublished Electrical Works. The editing and publishing of these was Maxwell's main scientific work while he was at the laboratory. Cavendish's work aroused Maxwell's intense admiration and he decided to call the Laboratory (formerly known as the Devonshire Laboratory) the Cavendish Laboratory and thus to commemorate both the Duke and Henry Cavendish. Several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson (1897) the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919. near fine copy, the binding is rather fine, without dust-jacket, supposingly as issued, the binding is nice and unmarked, a very small spot on the bottom part, the title on the spine is mainly erased, inside is fine, no markings, paper is fine, name of the former owner on the first page, complete of the 11 plates, with 3 wonderful portraits of Clerk Maxwell, Rayleigh and Thomson, 2 studies were written by J.J. Thomson (discovery of the electron, 1897) and Ernest Rutheford, both were nobelized after .Rutherford was in Manchester when he got the Nobel in 1911 but, under his leadership the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932
