Mathematical and Physical Papers

By: William Thomson

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William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin (1824â"1907), is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, though throughout his 53-year career as a mathematical physicist and engineer at the University of Glasgow he investigated a wide range of scientific questions in areas ranging from geology to transatlantic telegraph cables. The extent of his work is revealed in the six volumes of his Mathematical and Physical Papers, published from 1882 until 1911, consisting of articles that appeared in scientific periodicals from 1841 onwards. Volume 2, published in 1884, includes articles from the period 1853â"1856, and puts a special emphasis on the issue of the development of electric telegraphy. Also included is Thomson's Bakerian Lecture on the electro-dynamic qualities of metals.

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On the mutual attraction and repulsion between two electrified spherical conductors
Remarques sur les oscillations d'aiguilles non cristalis©es de faible pourvoir inductif paramagn©tique ou diamagn©tique
On the mechanical energies of the solar system
Note on the possible density of the luminiferous medium and on the mechanical value of a cubic mile of sunlight
Aper u sur des recherches relatives aux effets des courants ©lectriques dans des conducteurs in©galement ©chauff©s, et d'autres points de la thermo-©lectricit©
On mechanical antecedents of motion, heat, and light
Elementary demonstrations of propositions in the theory of magnetic force
On the magnetic medium and on the effects of compression
Compendium of the Fourier mathematics for the conduction of heat in solids, and the mathematically allied physical subjects of diffusion of fluids, and transmission of electric signals through submarine cables
On the theory of the electric telegraph
On the electro-static capacity of a Leyden phial and of a telegraph wire insulated in the axis of a cylindrical conducting sheath
On peristaltic induction of electric currents in submarine telegraph wires
Letters on 'Telegraphs to America'
On practical methods for rapid signalling by the electric telegraph
On the electric conductivity of commercial copper of various kinds
Analytical and synthetical attempts to ascertain the cause of the differences of electric conductivity discovered in wires of nearly pure copper
Remarks on the discharge of a a coiled electric cable
Velocity of electricity
Extract from article 'Telegraph' of Nichol's Cyclopaedia
On the true and false discharge of a coiled electric cable
On the forces concerned in the laying and lifting of deep-sea cables
On signalling through submarine cables
On the effects of mechanical strain on the thermo-electric qualities of metals
On the use of observations of terrestrial temperature for the investigation of absolute dates in geology
On the electric qualities of magnetized iron
On the thermo-electric position of aluminium
On the origin and transformations of motive power
On the electro-dynamic qualities of metals
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