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IN his recent valuable review of the development of the subject of magnetism in discontinuous media 1 Prof. McKeehan makes the statement that the theory, as given in the papers to which he is there referring, “makes no provision for that magnetic hysteresis which is the distinguishing feature of ferromagnetism”. This statement is literally quite correct in so far as there was no attempt made in these papers to deal with the subject of hysteresis. But it would be misleading if it were taken to imply that Weber's theory cannot give an account of the phenomena of hysteresis. The existence of directions of equilibrium for magnetisation, alternately stable and unstable, under the Weberian internal field, compel phenomena of that type.
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"Review of Modern Physics”, 1930, p. 492.
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PEDDIE, W. Magnetic Hysteresis on Weber's Theory. Nature 127, 625 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127625a0
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