Propagation de l'Electricite; histoire et theorie.

Head of title: Cours du Coll ge de France. 8vo. ix, 398 pp. Figs., 4 folding plates. Early quarter dark green gilt-stamped calf, marbled boards. Generally very good. In 1911 Brillouin was one of only six French physicists invited to the first Solvay Conference. He was awarded the Prix La Caze for 1912. He was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1921. He was an officer of the Legion of Honour. / "This book is a fairly faithful reproduction of the lessons I taught at the College de France during the year 1901-1902. It is by no means a complete and methodical treatise on electricity; it is, in accordance, I believe, with the spirit of the teaching of the College of France, a course of lessons, very unequally developed, according to whether the subject with which they treat is more or less known by French texts, or that it seemed to me to include some new historical or theoretical remarks. As for the mode of exposition and sequence of ideas and facts, I do not give it as preferable to any other, but as quite different from those which are usually adopted by French authors, and in itself quite satisfactory in the field studied to provoke comparison, make the reader think and help him build for himself the edifice best suited to the nature of his mind." / "I am thinking of following this volume with a second which would contain the essential parts of the lessons of 1902-1903 and 1903-1904, leading to the theory of electrons, which now rests on a solid experimental basis." "I was helped in the drafting of this book by MM Blanc and Blein, agreges of Physics, former students of the Ecole Normale, who wrote the lessons and reviewed the calculations with a zeal and care for which I thank them; I therefore hope that I have not let slip any serious error, and that there are few errors in signs or notation. Almost the whole volume was printed at the beginning of the year 1903, before the experiments of MM Peuder and Cremieu put beyond doubt the magnetic effect of electric convection; but publication was delayed for several months by the last chapter. In fact I had to resume the theory of oscillations of the ellipsoid, and it seemed to me necessary to carry out the numerical calculations essential to make usable the functions which define the distribution on ellipsoids, and the law of emission by ellipsoids. These calculations were made by M Kannapell; quite a number of checks and controls were carried out; I believe that one can have full confidence in the tables which end the volume. It would be great if they were more developed; but as such, they take the H and S functions out of the limbo of pure analysis and allow them to be used in most circumstances, without being stopped by preliminary calculations of an off-putting length." / Preface (translated).

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Publisher: A. Hermann, 1904.

Year: 1904

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Binding: Softcover

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