This 2-volume set represents an important foundation work of modern physics. It brings to final form Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and rigorously derives his general equations of field theory.
May be controlled by Resistance. Skip to content. This 2-volume set represents an important foundation work of modern physics. It brings to final form Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and rigorously derives his general equations of field theory.
May be controlled by Resistance. Facsimile reprint. Maxwell died before finishing the rest of the second edition. The rest of the second edition is therefore largely a reprint from the first edition. The third edition edited by J. Thomson finished the publication of the third edition, and wrote a "Supplementary Volume" with his notes. A summary of Maxwell's equations is given in Vol. II, Chapter IX of the third edition. However, Maxwell had gone in his second edition to some pains to reduce the quaternion expressions himself, and not require the students to know the calculus of quaternions so stated on p.
We note that Maxwell did not finish the second edition, but died before that. He actually had no hand at all in the third edition as to any further changes. The Second edition unfinished by Maxwell was later finished by Niven by simply adding the remaining material from the previous first edition approved by Maxwell to that part that Maxwell had revised.
The printing of the first nine chapters of the third edition was already underway when J. Thomson was assigned to finish the editing of the manuscript.
The EM field in massless space is force-free, and is a "condition of space" itself, as pointed out by Feynman in his three volumes of sophomore physics. Specifically, speaking of the electric field Feynman states:.
This potentiality for producing a force is called an electric field. Feynman, Robert B. II, p. However, Jackson a superb classical electrodynamicist of international reknown at least points out that this dramatic error in the model is just ignored.
Jackson states:. Jackson does admit it and point out that this logical problem is just ignored, for which he is to be highly commended. Most textbooks simply do not even discuss it. The third edition contained the same theory as the second edition essentially, but just with additional commentary. It is this third edition that is widely available and usually referred to as "Maxwell's theory". Today, there is still a widespread belief that the third edition represents Maxwell's original EM work and theory, in pristine form just as created originally by Maxwell.
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