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THESE lectures were intended to present some of the more important developments of electromagnetic theory in a connected and convenient form for the use of advanced students in the University of Calcutta and of the lecturers in outlying colleges. Following the example of Abraham and Föppl's excellent treatise, the author prefixes a chapter on the notation and methods of vector analysis, employing clarendon type for vector quantities. These are adhered to closely throughout the book, with the slight excursions into Cartesian method which seem to be inevitable. The second chapter consists of some illustrations of the application of these methods to the magnetostatic field. This is followed by an account of the Hertzian form of the equations of the electromagnetic field both for stationary and for moving bodies, with an indication of instances in which they fail to agree with experiment, and, finally, the electron theory of Lorentz is expounded so far as the general equations of the field are concerned.
Outlines of the Theory of Electromagnetism: a Series of Lectures delivered before the Calcutta University.
By Dr. G. T. Walker. Pp. viii + 52. (Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Price 3s. net.
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Outlines of the Theory of Electromagnetism: a Series of Lectures delivered before the Calcutta University . Nature 87, 311 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087311a0
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