Title Statements
- Full title :A student's guide through the great physics texts. / Kerry Kuehn.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 471 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783319218168, 3319218166
- oclc:ocn987778670
- LC Classification:QC23.2
- Dewey Decimal:530
Table of Contents
Intro; Preface; What is the nature of this book?; Who is this book for?; How is this book unique?; How is this book organized?; How might this book be used?; What mathematics preparation is required?; Figures, formulas, and footnotes; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Iron, Loadstones and Terrestrial Magnetism; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Reading: Gilbert, On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth; 1.2.1 Chapter I: Of Direction; 1.2.2 Chapter II: Directive (or Versorial) Force, Which We Call Verticity: What It Is; How It Resides in the Loadstone
And How It Is Acquired When Not Naturally Produced1.2.3 Chapter III: How Iron Acquires Verticity from the Loadstone, and How This Verticity Is Lost or Altered; 1.2.4 Chapter IV: Why Magnetized Iron Takes Opposite Verticity; and Why Iron Touched by the True North Side of the Stone Moves to the Earth's North, and When Touched by the True South Side to the Earth's South: Iron Rubbed with the North Point of the Stone Does Not Turn to the South, Nor Vice Versa, as All Writers on the Loadstone Have Erroneously Thought; 1.3 Study Questions; 1.4 Exercises; 1.5 Vocabulary
Chapter 2 The Life and Death of a Magnet2.1 Intr…
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