Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish (Paperback)

Henry Cavendish (1731 1810), the grandson of the second duke of Devonshire, wrote papers on electrical topics for the Royal Society, but the majority of his electrical experiments did not become known until they were collected and published by James Clerk Maxwell a century later, in 1879, long after other scientists had been credited with the same results. Among Cavendish's discoveries were the concept of electric potential, which he called the 'degree of electrification'; an early unit of capacitance, that of a sphere one inch in diameter; the formula for the capacitance of a plate capacitor; the concept of the dielectric constant of a material; the relationship between electric potential and current, now called Ohm's Law; laws for the division of current in parallel circuits, now attributed to Charles Wheatstone; and the inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance, now called Coulomb's Law.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	February 2010
Editors:	James Clerk Maxwell
Authors:	Henry Cavendish
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	532
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-00942-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism Promotions
LSN:	1-108-00942-5
Barcode:	9781108009423

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