To Physics and Chemis

Excerpt from To Physics and Chemis

The following pages contain the substance of a course of lectures delivered at the Cavendish Labora tory in the Michaelmas Term of 1886.

Some of the results have already been published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for 1886 and 1887, but as they relate to phenomena which belong to the borderland between two departments of Physics, and which are generally either entirely neglected or but briefly noticed in treatises upon either, I have thought that it might perhaps be of service to students of Physics to publish them in a more complete form. I have included in the book an account of some investiga tions published after the delivery of the lectures which illustrate the methods described therein.

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