Physics Books

Five of Maxwell's Papers

James Clerk Maxwell

Five of Maxwell's Papers consists of On the unequal sensibility of the Foramen Centrale to light of different coloursOn the theory of compound colours with reference to mixtures of blue and yello..

The Story of Electricity

John Munro

The purpose of this little book is to present the essential facts of electrical science in a popular and interesting way, as befits the scheme of the series to which it belongs. Electrical phenomena h..

Radio-Activity

Ernest Rutherford

The rapid advance of our knowledge of radio-activity has been dependent on the information already gained by research into the electric properties of gases. The action possessed by the radiations from..

Harper's Electricity Book for Boys

Joseph H. Adams

While this book shows boys what they can do themselves, its scope has been enlarged by Mr. Baker’s chapter explaining briefly the working of electricity all about us, in light and heat, in the trolley..

The Wonders of Optics

Fulgence Marion

The Eye is at once the most wonderful and the most useful of all our organs of sense. It is especially by means of the eye that we gain a knowledge of the exterior world. Our other senses are far more..

How Old Is It? The Story of Dating in Archeaology

James Schoenwetter

The absolute clock utilized most widely in archaeology is the historical record. Men have used calendars for a long time, and have often left records with written dates. On tombstones at a site in old..

James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

Richard Glazebrook

Maxwell’s life was written in 1882 by two of those who were most intimately connected with him, Professor Lewis Campbell and Dr. Garnett. Many of the biographical details of the earlier part of this b..

A Treatise on Mechanics

Henry Kater

This Treatise on Mechanics, which was originally published in 1830, is the work of Dr. Lardner, with the exception of the twenty-first chapter, which was written by the late Captain Kater. The present..