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XVI.—On the Faraday-Tube Theory of Electro-Magnetism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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The method of describing a field of force by means of lines or tubes of induction, which originated with Faraday, was given a quantitative form by Sir J. J. Thomson, and further discussed by N. Campbell in his book Modern Electrical Theory. Since Maxwell himself looked on his work as a mathematical theory of Faraday's lines of force, one is tempted to examine the original physical theory for hints as to the modification of the Maxwellian theory to suit certain modern requirements.
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page 225 note * Recent Researches, chap, i; Electricity and Matter, chap. i.
page 225 note † [Heaviside's vector notation is a modification of Hamilton's quaternion notation, the main difference being that the quaternion product of two vectors AB is not used in Hamilton's sense but is used to mean the scalar of the complete product—that is, Heaviside's AB is equivalent to Hamilton's –SAB, and may be defined geometrically as equal to AB cos θ, where A, B are the lengths of A, B, and θ the angle between them. As in other non-associative vector algebras, the square of a vector is equal to the square of its length; in quaternions A2= – A2. The notation introduced by Gordon Brown in equations (9), (10), etc.,has been suggested by others but generally discarded. Burali-Forti and Marcolongo, however, make it a feature of their system of vector analysis. As a notation it is misleading; as an operator it is inferior to the quaternion ∇-—C. G. K.]
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