This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

FundamenMlj Electricity Magnetism by LEONARD B. LOEB Professor of Physics, University of California Third Edition 1947 New York-JOHN WILEY SONS, Inc. London CHAPMAN HALL, Limited PREFACE This is the third edition of a textbook prepared in mimeograph form in 1927 and published in a first edition in 1931. It was written to fill a specific need at the University of California, which was one of the first universities to give basic physics for engineers, physicists, and chemists in four three-credit courses during the first two collegiate years of study. The first semester was devoted to mechanics followed by heat and properties of matter in the second electricity and magne tism in the third and sound, light, and atomic structure in the fourth. This course in physics was closely coordinated with mathematics sequence, the first semester of which was analytical geometry, the second differential calculus, and the third and fourth integral calculus. For such a program the usual textbooks in beginning physics djd not include a sufficiently advanced treatment of electricity anid magnetism. After World War 1 1 the basic course in physics was rearranged into three four-credit courses in a sequence starting in the second semester of the freshman year. Before starting physics the student takes a semester of analytical geometry and some differential calculus. In the next two semesters the concurrent courses in mathematics and physics are mechanics and properties of matter with differential calculus, and electricity, magnetism, and atomic structure with integral calculus. The second semester of the sophomore year is devoted to heat, sound, and light. In the new plan, as in the previous plan, one creditis for laboratory work. The new plan allots fifty per cent more time for lectures on electricity, magnetism, and atomic structure. The textbook has been revised and enlarged to meet these requirements. Since it has been written on a somewhat higher level than the conventional one-year, eight-semester-hour courses conventionally given in colleges and since it freely uses the calculus, it is possible that this textbook can and will be used in more advanced courses at colleges giving the single eight-semester-hour course in basic physics.. In view of the demand for this book for such purposes, there has been included a considerable amount of additional material, comprising such topics as electromagnetic theory and the solution of the wave equation as well as a more comprehensive study of the fundamentals of electronics. A brief historical outline replaces the historical survey to which a major portion of the first part of the text was devoted in previous editions. This has provided space for the major change, which is in the section on atomic structure, including conduction in gases, now vii viii PREFACE extended to give a knowledge of the fundamental principles of atomic behavior and organization. Besides this major change some new material resulting from recent advances has been added. This mate rial includes the presentation of the ferromagnetic phenomena from the viewpoint of the theory of domains, extensions of the chapters on resistance, ionic conduction and its relation to atomic structure, thermoelectric effects, dielectric effects, paramagnctism and ferro magnetism, and the modern methods for measurement of magnetic fields and flux. In addition, there are sections dealing with theelectrical principles underlying the achievement of high-energy elec trical particles, including devices such as the betatron, synchrotron, synchrocyclotron, and linear accelerator as well as sections dealing with the principles of ultra-high-frequency generating devices such as the magnetron and Klystron. The revision adds some seventy new or improved figures...