The Maxwellians is a book by Bruce J. Hunt, published in 1991 by Cornell University Press; a paperback edition appeared in 1994, and the book was reissued...
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distribution The Maxwellians (1991 book) List of things named after James Clerk Maxwell This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maxwellian...
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Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, Oxford Bruce J. Hunt (1991) The Maxwellians Peierls, Rudolf. Model-making in physics, Contemporary Physics, Volume...
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the resistance between these contacts is 1 Ω, then the resistivity of the material is 1 Ω⋅m. Electrical conductivity (or specific conductance) is the...
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plasma the particle velocities are often taken to be approximately a Maxwellian distribution function. If the slope of the function is negative, the number...
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History of Maxwell's equations (section Relationships among electricity, magnetism, and the speed of light)
electromagnetic theory The Maxwellians As noted above, this terminology is not common: Modern use of the term "Maxwell's equations" refer to the Heaviside reformulation...
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Salazar-Palma, M.; Mokole, Eric L. (2008). "A Look at the Concept of Channel Capacity from a Maxwellian Viewpoint". Physics of Multiantenna Systems & Broadband...
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Plasma (physics) (redirect from The fourth state of matter)
distribution function is close to a Maxwellian even in the presence of strong electric or magnetic fields. However, because of the large difference in mass between...
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Nuclear fusion (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the chem tags)
example of a case where the usual assumption of a Maxwellian plasma is not appropriate. Any of the reactions above can in principle be the basis of fusion power...
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James Clerk Maxwell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020. B.J. Hunt (1991) The Maxwellians, pages 165,6, Cornell University Press ISBN 0801482348 Eyges 1972,...
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link from Internet Archive The Maxwellians, page 201 Alexander Macfarlane (1916) Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, link from...
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approximated by a Maxwellian function, whereas the distribution for main-belt asteroids was found to be non-Maxwellian, with a deficit of periods in the range 8–10 hours...
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Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution (redirect from Maxwellian distribution)
{\textstyle v^{2}=|\mathbf {v} |^{2}=v_{x}^{2}+v_{y}^{2}+v_{z}^{2}} . The Maxwellian distribution function for particles moving in only one direction, if...
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Oliver Heaviside (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6909-9. Bruce J. Hunt (1991) The Maxwellians, Cornell...
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Elastance (section The Maxwellian analogy)
generalized force. In the electrical domain, the generalized displacement is charge, which explains the Maxwellians' use of the term displacement. Since...
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Maxwell's equations (section History of the equations)
text, by R. A. Serway, J. W. Jewett, page 809. Bruce J. Hunt (1991) The Maxwellians, chapter 5 and appendix, Cornell University Press "Maxwell's Equations"...
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began by abandoning the Maxwellian descriptions of the ether and conduction. Instead, Lorentz made a distinction between matter and the luminiferous aether...
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Tokamak (category Science and technology in the Soviet Union)
arguments suggesting the temperature they were measuring was Maxwellian, and the debate raged. In the aftermath of ZETA, the UK teams began the development of...
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George Francis FitzGerald (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
figure among the group of "Maxwellians" who revised, extended, clarified, and confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical theories of the electromagnetic...
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'The distribution of initial velocities among thermionic electrons', Phys. Rev., 25: 795–807. here Turvey, K. (1990). 'Test of validity of Maxwellian statistics...
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Invention of radio (redirect from Marconi's role in the history of radio)
Spectrum 29(3): 45. Hunt, Bruce J. (1991) The Maxwellians Einstein, Albert (1940). "Considerations Concerning the Fundaments of Theoretical Physics". Science...
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Joseph Larmor (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge)
Hunt (1991), The Maxwellians, Cornell University Press. Macrossan, M. N. "A note on relativity before Einstein", British Journal for the Philosophy of...
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collisions, the particles within the inner corona have a range and distribution of speeds described by a Maxwellian distribution. The mean velocity of these particles...
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Bremsstrahlung (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
photons), thus satisfying the law of conservation of energy. The term is also used to refer to the process of producing the radiation. Bremsstrahlung...
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Hunt, Bruce J. (2005). The Maxwellians. Cornell: Cornell University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780801482342. Josephs, H.J. (1959). "The Heaviside papers found...
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physics, kinetics refers to the study of continua in velocity space. This is usually in the context of non-thermal (non-Maxwellian) velocity distributions...
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History of physics (redirect from The History of physics)
Centuries, Berkeley: University of California Press. Hunt, Bruce (1991), The Maxwellians, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Jungnickel, Christa; McCormmach...
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is shorter than the other characteristic times in the system, and the particle distributions are Maxwellian. This is usually not the case in fusion, space...
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accepted the validity of Maxwell's theory, Einstein pointed out that many anomalous experiments could be explained if the energy of a Maxwellian light wave...
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X=v_{M}/({\sqrt {2}}\sigma )} is the ratio of the velocity of the object under consideration to the modal velocity of the Maxwellian distribution. e r f ( X )...
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