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Trade sized Softcover volumes I & IIPublisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc, . 1035 pages, index. Reprint of 1912 edition of Treatise on Natural Philosophy., 1962 ... Read more

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simple harmonic motion and it's equations
Unlike the "dumbing down" of physicsof our own age
Thomson is willing to present the most difficult equations.
I would hate to think what physics would be like if he,and
Rayleigh had consented to "dumb down" their classic texts.
I think it is disrespect for the intelligence of the ordinary human to talk "baby talk" to him.
I am grateful for his section of spherical harmonic analysis. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! N-rays (or N rays) are a hypothesized form of radiation, described by French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot, and initially confirmed by others, but subsequently found to be illusory. In 1903, Blondlot, a distinguished physicist who was one of 8 physicists who were corresponding members of the French Academy of Science announced his discovery while working at the University of Nancy attempting to polarize X-rays. He had perceived changes in the brightness of an electric spark in a spark gap placed in an X-ray beam which he photographed and he later attributed to the novel form of radiation, naming it the N-ray for the University of Nancy. Blondlot, Augustin Charpentier, Arsène d'Arsonval and approximately 120 other scientists in 300 published articles claimed to be able to detect N-rays emanating from most substances, including the human body with the peculiar exception that they were not emitted by green wood and some treated metals. ... Read more