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The creation of scientific effects :

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0226078876 (alk. paper)

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0226078884 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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9780226078878 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780226078885 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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b533654

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The creation of scientific effects :

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[Book]

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Heinrich Hertz and electric waves /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jed Z. Buchwald.

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Chicago :

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University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1994.

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xiv, 482 p. :

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ill. ;

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24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-478) and index.

Text of Note

1. Introduction: Heinrich Hertz, Maker of Effects -- pt. 1. In Helmholtz's Laboratory. 2. Forms of Electrodynamics. 3. Realizing Potentials in the Laboratory -- pt. 2. Information Direct from Nature. 4. A Budding Career. 5. Devices for Induction. 6. Hertz's Early Exploration of Helmholtz's Concepts -- pt. 3. Berlin's Golden Boy. 7. Rotating Spheres. 8. Elastic Interactions. 9. Specific Powers in the Laboratory. 10. The Cathode Ray as a Vehicle for Success -- pt. 4. Studying Books. 11. Frustration. 12. Hertz's Argument. 13. Assumption X -- pt. 5. Electric Waves. 14. A Novel Device. 15. How the Resonator Became an Electric Probe. 16. Electric Propagation Produced. 17. Electric Waves Manipulated. 18. Conclusion: Restraint and Reconstruction -- App. 1. Waveguides and Radiators in Maxwellian Electrodynamics -- App. 2. Helmholtz's Derivation of the Forces from a Potential -- App. 3. Helmholtz's Energy Argument -- App. 4. Polarization Currents and Experiment.

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App. 5. Convection in Helmholtz's Electrodynamics -- App. 6. Instability in the Fechner-Weber Theory -- App. 7. Hertz's First Use of the General Helmholtz Equations -- App. 8. Hertz on the Induction of Polarization by Motion -- App. 9. Hertz on Relatively Moving, Charged Conductors -- App. 10. Elastic Bodies Pressed Together -- App. 11. Evaporation's Theoretical Limits -- App. 12. Hertz's Model for Geissler-Tube Discharge -- App. 13. Propagation in Helmholtz's Electrodynamics -- App. 14. Forces in Hertz's Early Experiments -- App. 15. Hertz's Quasi Field Theory for Narrow Cylindrical Wires -- App. 16. Considerations regarding the Possible Background to Helmholtz's New Physics -- App. 17. Poincare and Bertrand -- App. 18. Difficulties with Charge and Polarization.

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Hertz, Heinrich,1857-1894.

Electric waves.

Physicists-- Germany.

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Buchwald, Jed Z.

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20140214092625.0

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