Conduction of Electricity Through Gases (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Call, William Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440047391 ISBN 13 : 9781440047398

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how electricity moves through gases, with clear experiments and theory that illuminate ionisation, discharge, and charge motion.

This second edition of a landmark work offers an enlarged, rewritten text that ties together experimental results with mathematical theory. It presents a coherent view of how gases conduct electricity, how ions form and move, and how external fields influence discharge. The book situates these ideas in the broader context of early 20th‑century physics, including related discoveries in radioactivity, cathode rays, and X‑rays.

Ideal for students and researchers, it provides thorough grounding in the mechanisms of electrical conduction in gases, supported by diagrams and detailed discussions of key experiments.

• Foundations of gas conductivity in normal and conducting states
• Determination of ion charge-to-mass ratios and ion properties
• Effects of magnetic fields on ion motion and the role of ionisation by light, X‑rays, and radioactivity
• Connections to broader topics in atomic structure and electrical phenomena

Ideal for readers of advanced physics and the history of early quantum ideas, who want a rigorous, experiment‑driven treatment of gas discharge and ionisation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Conduction of Electricity Through Gases

I have endeavoured in this work to develop the view that the conduction of electricity through gases is due to the presence in the gas of small particles charged with electricity, called ions, which under the influence of electric forces move from one part of the gas to another. My object has been to show how the various phenomena exhibited when electricity passes through gases can be coordinated by this conception rather than to attempt to give a complete account of the very numerous investigations which have been made on the electrical properties of gases; I have therefore confined myself for the most part to those phenomena which furnish results sufficiently precise to serve as a test of the truth of this theory. The book contains the subject-matter of lectures given at the Cavendish Laboratory where a good deal of attention has been paid to the subject and where a considerable number of physicists are working at it.

The study of the electrical properties of gases seems to offer the most promising field for investigating the Nature of Electricity and the Constitution of Matter, for thanks to the Kinetic Theory of Gases our conceptions of the processes other than electrical which occur in gases are much more vivid and definite than they are for liquids or solids; in consequence of this the subject has advanced very rapidly and I think it may now fairly be claimed that our knowledge of and insight into the processes going on when electricity passes through a gas is greater than it is in the case either of solids or liquids.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440047391
• ISBN 13: 9781440047398
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 696
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