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Electromagnetic Theory: A Critical Examination of Fundamentals by O'Rahilly, Alfred, C.S.Sp., 1884-1969 is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Electromagnetic Theory: A Critical Examination of Fundamentals about?
In this stimulating work, a leading European scientist takes a critical look at theories and ideas at the heart of orthodox electromagnetics. Characterized by its author as an "essay in constructive criticism," the book has as its chief purpose an examination, through careful analysis of standard texts and treatises, of accepted theory and the presentation of guidelines for a reconstruction in the field. Unfettered by dogma, authority, or consensus, this is a work in the great searching tradition of scientific advance. [Professor O'Rahilly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWBUMogIts) points out inadequacies and inconsistencies in various "established" concepts, such as the notion of displacement current in Maxwell's equations and Lorentz's "local time," and in theories of Heaviside, Kelvin, Einstein, Minkowski, J. J. Thomson, Hertz, Poynting, Weyl, etc. Extensive reference to primary sources (plus much directly quoted material) is made in these analyses. And there are closely reasoned" arguments in support of ideas which, the author believes, have not had adequate hearing: the proposals of Lorenz and Riemann (in lieu of Maxwell's displacement current), and contributions of [Ritz](
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- Author
- O'Rahilly, Alfred, C.S.Sp., 1884-1969
- Publisher
- Longman's, Green and Co.
- Published
- 1938
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789401736701
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Mathematics, Science