On the Connexion of the Physical SciencesJ. Murray, 1858 - 523 pages |
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Page 313
... magnetic needle , acts at right angles to the current . The action of an electrical current upon either pole of a magnet has no tendency to cause the pole to approach or recede , but to rotate about it . If the stream of electricity be ...
... magnetic needle , acts at right angles to the current . The action of an electrical current upon either pole of a magnet has no tendency to cause the pole to approach or recede , but to rotate about it . If the stream of electricity be ...
Page 315
... magnetic by the induction of the current flowing through the wire that a temporary magnet of this kind made by Professor Henry of the Albany Academy in the United States sustained a weight of nearly a ton . Another by Mr. Gage has been ...
... magnetic by the induction of the current flowing through the wire that a temporary magnet of this kind made by Professor Henry of the Albany Academy in the United States sustained a weight of nearly a ton . Another by Mr. Gage has been ...
Page 316
... magnetic currents : M. Ampère , by discovering the mutual action of electrical currents on one another , has added a ... magnet . That end of the cylinder in which the current of positive electricity is moving in a direction similar to ...
... magnetic currents : M. Ampère , by discovering the mutual action of electrical currents on one another , has added a ... magnet . That end of the cylinder in which the current of positive electricity is moving in a direction similar to ...
Page 317
... magnetic properties which bodies possess derive these properties from currents of electricity , circulating about every part in one uniform direction . Although every particle of a magnet possesses like properties with the whole , yet ...
... magnetic properties which bodies possess derive these properties from currents of electricity , circulating about every part in one uniform direction . Although every particle of a magnet possesses like properties with the whole , yet ...
Page 318
... magnet ; so that the reciprocal action of magnets and all the phenomena of electro - magnetism are reduced to the ... magnetic phenomena , in the same manner as polarization reduces the undulations of light to one plane , which had ...
... magnet ; so that the reciprocal action of magnets and all the phenomena of electro - magnetism are reduced to the ... magnetic phenomena , in the same manner as polarization reduces the undulations of light to one plane , which had ...
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