The volume treating ionization by collision and gaseous discharge completes the third edition of this well-known work originated by Sir J. J. Thomson.In spite of, or rather because of, the vast amount of material dealt with, the reviewer gets the impression that this, the third edition, cannot occupy the commanding position which the first edition did thirty years ago in the then much newer and narrower
To cite this article: J.J. Thomson F.R.S. (1904) XXIV. On the structure of the atom: an investigation of the stability and periods of oscillation of a number of corpuscles arranged at equal intervals around the circumference of a circle; with application of the results to the theory of atomic structure , Philosophical Magazine Series 6, 7:39, 237-265,
CHAPTER IV CONTAINS AN INVESTIGATION.^ THE THEORY OF SUCH CURRENTS WHEN THE CONDUCTORS IN WHICH THEY FLOW ARE CYLIN DRICAL OR SPHERICAL, WHILE IN CHAPTER V AN ACCOUNT OF HERTZ'S EXPERIMENTS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IS GIVEN. THIS CHAPTER ALSO CONTAINS SOME INVESTIGATIONS ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF LIGHT, ESPECIALLY ON THE SCATTERING OF LIGHT BY SMALL METALLIC PARTICLES ; ON REFLECTION FROM METALS ; AND ON THE ROTATION OF THE PLANE OF POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION FROM A MAGNET. I REGRET THAT IT WAS ONLY WHEN THIS VOLUME WAS PASSING THROUGH THE PRESS THAT I BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH A VALUABLE PAPER BY DRUDE (WIEDE MANN'
CHAPTER VI MAINLY CONSISTS OF AN ACCOUNT OF LORD RAYLEIGH'S INVESTIGATIONS ON THE LAWS ACCORDING TO WHICH ALTERNATING CURRENTS DISTRIBUTE THEMSELVES AMONG A NETWORK OF CONDUCTORS ; WHILE THE LAST CHAPTER CONTAINS A DISCUSSION OF THE EQUATIONS WHICH HOLD WHEN A DIELECTRIC IS MOVING IN A MAGNETIC FIELD, AND SOME PROBLEMS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CURRENTS IN ROTATINGCONDUCTORS.
I HAVE NOT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT RECENT RESEARCHES ON MAGNETIC INDUCTION, AS A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THESE IN AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE FORM IS CONTAINED IN PROFESSOR EWING'S ' TREATISE ON MAGNETIC INDUCTION IN IRON AND OTHER METALS.' I HAVE AGAIN TO THANK MR. CHREE, FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FOR MANY MOST VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS, AS WELL AS FOR
When a drop of ink falls into water from not too great a height, it descends through the water as a ring, in which there is evidently considerable rotation about the circular axis passing through the centres of its cross sections; as the ring travels down through the water inequalities make their appearance : more ink seems to collect in some parts of it than in others, and as these parts of the ring descend more rapidly than the rest, it assumes some such appearance as that shown in fig. 1.
Manchester-born Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858–1940), discoverer of the electron, was one of the most important Cambridge physicists of the later nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Succeeding Lord Rayleigh as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, he directed the research interests of the laboratory, and eight of his students, including Rutherford, went on to win Nobel Prizes, as Thomson himself did in 1906. He was knighted in 1908, received the Order of Merit in 1912, and became Master of Trinity College in 1918. He also served as President of the Royal Society from 1915 from 1920 and was a government advisor on scientific research during World War I. This autobiography, published in 1936, covers all aspects of his career - his student days in Manchester, arrival in Cambridge, and growing international reputation. It gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge life and science at a dynamic period of development.
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