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711465
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b533654
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Buchwald, Jed Z.
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The creation of scientific effects : : Heinrich Hertz and electric waves /\ Jed Z. Buchwald.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c1994.
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xiv, 482 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0226078876 (alk. paper)
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: 0226078884 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780226078878 (alk. paper)
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: 9780226078885 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-478) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: Heinrich Hertz, Maker of Effects -- pt. 1. In Helmholtz's Laboratory. 2. Forms of Electrodynamics. 3. Realizing Potentials in the Laboratory -- pt. 2. Information Direct from Nature. 4. A Budding Career. 5. Devices for Induction. 6. Hertz's Early Exploration of Helmholtz's Concepts -- pt. 3. Berlin's Golden Boy. 7. Rotating Spheres. 8. Elastic Interactions. 9. Specific Powers in the Laboratory. 10. The Cathode Ray as a Vehicle for Success -- pt. 4. Studying Books. 11. Frustration. 12. Hertz's Argument. 13. Assumption X -- pt. 5. Electric Waves. 14. A Novel Device. 15. How the Resonator Became an Electric Probe. 16. Electric Propagation Produced. 17. Electric Waves Manipulated. 18. Conclusion: Restraint and Reconstruction -- App. 1. Waveguides and Radiators in Maxwellian Electrodynamics -- App. 2. Helmholtz's Derivation of the Forces from a Potential -- App. 3. Helmholtz's Energy Argument -- App. 4. Polarization Currents and Experiment.
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App. 5. Convection in Helmholtz's Electrodynamics -- App. 6. Instability in the Fechner-Weber Theory -- App. 7. Hertz's First Use of the General Helmholtz Equations -- App. 8. Hertz on the Induction of Polarization by Motion -- App. 9. Hertz on Relatively Moving, Charged Conductors -- App. 10. Elastic Bodies Pressed Together -- App. 11. Evaporation's Theoretical Limits -- App. 12. Hertz's Model for Geissler-Tube Discharge -- App. 13. Propagation in Helmholtz's Electrodynamics -- App. 14. Forces in Hertz's Early Experiments -- App. 15. Hertz's Quasi Field Theory for Narrow Cylindrical Wires -- App. 16. Considerations regarding the Possible Background to Helmholtz's New Physics -- App. 17. Poincare and Bertrand -- App. 18. Difficulties with Charge and Polarization.
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Hertz, Heinrich,1857-1894.
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Electric waves.
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Physicists-- Germany.
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QC661.B85 1994
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