Lord Kelvin: 4 books

Book cover of Tides
by Lord Kelvin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, (26 June 1824 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and did...
Book cover of Wave Theory of Light
by Lord Kelvin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, (26 June 1824 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and did...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 30

Harvard Classics Volume 30

Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Etc

by Michael Faraday, Golden Deer Classics, Hermann von Helmholtz
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Contents: 1. The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday 2. On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz 3. The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin 4. The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb 5. Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie
Book cover of The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
by Lord Kelvin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

My subject this evening is not the physical properties of crystals, not even their dynamics; it is merely the geometry of the structure—the arrangement of the molecules in the constitution of a crystal. Every crystal is a homogeneous assemblage of small bodies or molecules. The converse proposition...
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