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History 181B:  Modern Physics
Class 5 (1/26/01)
Electricity and magnetism
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Outline 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
Names and terms
Primary Secondary
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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