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Matter and Motion

By James Clerk Maxwell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9781108014021, 110801402X
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (5173513 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
Edition
1
Pages
177\177
Topic
Physics
Library
mexmat
Time added
2013-06-02 03:05:30

Description

Scottish physicist Maxwell (1831-1879) first published this primer on dynamics in 1876. Maxwell introduces the fundamental physical knowledge of his time in chapters on motion, force, properties of the center of mass, work and energy, recapitulation, the pendulum and gravity, and universal gravitation. Also included is a chapter on equations of motions, taken from Maxwell's A Treatise of Electricity and Magnetism (1873), and two appendices treating the principle of relativity of motion and the principle of least action. As no contextual information has been added, the text will likely be of most interest to those already familiar with Maxwell's place in scientific history.

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