The Theory of Electricity

Abstract

ELECTRICAL theory, the most rapidly growing part of physics, has now reached such dimensions that no author can hope to produce a text-book which will deal effectively with its many aspects. A series of such books is necessary which shall take different points of view and lay especial emphasis in certain broad directions. We already have several, and notably the works of Jeans and Richardson, which are both compara tively recent. But lacunae remain, and one of these the present author has set out to fill. We may say at the outset that he has filled it with considerable success, for the work now before us in no way constitutes a reduplication of any important part of an existing treatise. It is, moreover, one which can be recommended without reserve to a student who is anxious to obtain a clear picture of the fundamental principles underlying certain important, and often rather neglected, aspects of electromagnetic theory.

The Theory of Electricity.

By G. H. Livens. Pp. vi + 717. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1918.) Price 30s. net.