Maxwell, William

Maxwell, William L., and John A. Muckstadt. Establishing Consistent and Realistic Reorder Intervals in Production-... 

It IS wrong to see Maxwell s achievement as one of merely translating Faraday s ideas into precise mathematical language. Though he once described Faraday as the nucleus of eveiything electric since 1830, two other men, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Wilhelm Weber, were equally influential. 

See also Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Faraday, Michael Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Helmholtz, Hermann von Joule, James Prescott Maxwell, James Clerk Rankme, William John Macquorn. 

Maclaurin, Colin 34n Mathieu, Brafle Leonard 114n Maxwell, James Clark 39n Mills, Ian In, 352 Milne. William E. 345n... 

I also wish to thank the Bodleian Library at Oxford University for permission to do research in the Frederick Soddy Papers in their Modem Manuscripts collections, and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, for permission to work with Soddy s lecture notes and papers in their archives. I thank University College London, Special Collections, for permission to do research in the Sir William Ramsay Papers. I also thank the special collections librarians at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for access to H. G. Wells s papers, and the University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for access to Edith Sitwell s papers. Frances Soar of the Geographical Association, the administrators of the Frederick Soddy Tmst, and Maxwell Wright and Gwen Huntley of Bunkers Solicitors generously helped me in my efforts to track down an estate for Frederick Soddy s unpublished writings. And I wish to thank Mark Smithells and the Smithells family in New Zealand for permission to quote from Arthur Smithells s unpublished manuscript in the Frederick Soddy Papers. 

Refs 1) W.R. Maxwell, Pyrotechnic Whistles , 4th Combstn Symp, Paper No 111, The Williams Wilkins Co, Baltimore (1953), 906 2) H. 

Dayhoff [50] suggested that one might measure a rest mass of photon by designing a low-frequency oscillator from an inductor-capacitor (LC) network. The expected frequency can be calculated from Maxwell s equations, and this may be used to give an effective wavelength for photons of that frequency. He claimed that one would have a measure of the dispersion relationship at low frequencies. Williams [51] calculated the effective capacitance of a spherical capacitor using Proca equations. This calculation can then be generalized to any capacitor with the result that a capacitor has an additional term that is quadratic in the area of the plates of the capacitor. However, this term is not exactly the one that Dayhoff referred to. But it seems to be a very close description of it. One can add two identical capacitors C in parallel and obtain the result... 

Faraday was thus able to enunciate his two laws of electrolysis. His second law implied that both matter and electricity were atomic in nature. Faraday was deeply opposed to atomism, especially the theory proposed by John Dalton, and indeed held a very antimaterialist view. It was clear to Faraday, however, that the law of definite proportions also required some sort of atomic theory. What Faraday proposed in the 1840s was that matter was perceived where fines of force met at a particular point in space. A direct experimental outcome of this radical theory was Faraday s discovery in 1845 of the magneto-optical effect and diamagnetism. The field theory that Faraday developed from this was able to solve a number of problems in physics that were not amenable to conventional approaches. This was one reason why field theory was taken up quite quickly by elite natural philosophers such as William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and James Clerk Maxwell. 

Gibbs also wrote an influential book on statistical mechanics, which developed a molecular theory of thermodynamic properties from first principles, with a treatment that was general enough to accommodate quantum mechanics, a theory that had not even been imagined yet. He championed the now standard use of vector notation over William Rowan Hamilton s quaternion algebra and wrote several seminal papers on electromagnetism in the 1880s that supported Maxwell s theory, see also Equilibrium Maxwell, James Clerk Thermodynamics. 

I. Maxwell, C. Williams, F. Muller and B. Krutzen, Zeolite catalysis for high quality fuels, Shell brochure, 1992. 

In Lewis Campbell and William Garnett The Life of James Clerk Maxwell Molecular Evolution (p. 637)... 

Allen Nevins preface to William Quentin Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (New York Longmans, Green, 1956), p. viii. 

On women s role during the war see George C. Rable, Civil Wars Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana University of Illinois, 1989) and on the United States Sanitary Commission, in which women played such an important role, see William Quentin Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (New York Longmans, Green, 1956). 

An important application of multicomponent mass transfer theory that we have not considered in any detail in this text is diffusion in porous media with or without heterogeneous reaction. Such applications can be handled with the dusty gas (Maxwell-Stefan) model in which the porous matrix is taken to be the n + 1th component in the mixture. Readers are referred to monographs by Jackson (1977), Cunningham and Williams (1980), and Mason and Malinauskas (1983) and a review by Burghardt (1986) for further study. Krishna (1993a) has shown the considerable gains that accrue from the use of the Maxwell-Stefan formulation for the description of surface diffusion within porous media. 

Williams, Laurence O., "Hydrogen Power", Pergamon Press Inc., Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523,1980... 

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