Modern Electrical Theory

Modern Electrical Theory, by Norman Robert Campbell,...

Modern Electrical Theory

Excerpt from Modern Electrical Theory The scope and intention of this volume need some explanation. It was begun with the idea of providing a text-book from which students, well grounded in the elementary branches of physics, might obtain some knowledge of the later developments; there is no doubt that such a book is needed urgently. But, in the course of writing, departures from the original scheme have been made. There are lengthy descriptions of theories which may be assumed to be familiar to such students, and there are discussions of controversial questions which may be thought undesirable in the early stages of study: it is improbable that a reader, who could gain much new information from the first chapter, could gain much benefit from the last. On the other hand, the book does not aspire to the dignity of a treatise designed to bring the results of the latest original research to the notice of those who have made a special study of the newer branches of physics: there is little that is not well-known to all professed students of the subject. However, I hope that the following pages are not wholly without use or interest. I have attempted to expound the subject in its logical order, to analyse the arguments by which the various phenomena are correlated, to draw special attention to the assumptions that are made, and to show which of these assumptions are fundamental in the modem theory of electricity and which may be expected to be abandoned in the further progress of investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Modern Electrical Theory