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History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 5 (1/26/01)
Electricity and magnetism
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The second law: irreversibility and entropy
Clarification
Making sense of the second law
Electricity, magnetism, and fields
Peculiar phenomena
Laplacian approaches
Interconvertibility and electromagnetism
Forms of explanation
Faraday and the field
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Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)
electromagnetism
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
induction
lines of force, field |
Presbyterianism
inverse square law
potential theory
Biot and Savart |
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