Mathematical and Physical Papers, 1903–1913 / / Benjamin Osgood Peirce.

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• VerfasserIn: Peirce, Benjamin Osgood,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1926
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I On the Temperature Coefficients of Magnets made of Chilled Cast Iron -- II. On Families of Curves which are the Lines of Certain Plane Vectors either Solenoidal or Lamellar -- III. On Generalized Space Differentiation of the Second Order -- IV. On the Properties of Magnets made of Hardened Cast Iron -- V. On the Manner of Growth of a Current in the Coil of a nearly- Closed Electromagnet as influenced by the Width of the Air Gap -- VI. On the Permeability and the Retentiveness of a Mass of Fine Iron Particles -- VII. On the Conditions to be Satisfied if the Sums of the Corresponding Members of Two Pairs of Orthogonal Functions of Two Variables are to be themselves Orthogonal -- VIII. On the Determination of the Magnetic Behavior of the Finely Divided Core of an Electromagnet while a Steady Current is being established in the Exciting Coil -- IX. The Damping of the Oscillations of Swinging Bodies by the Resistance of the Air -- X. On the Magnetic Behavior of Hardened Cast Iron and of certain Tool Steels at High Excitations -- XI. The Theory of Ballistic Galvanometers of Long Period -- XII. On the Permeabilities and the Reluctivities, for very Wide Ranges of Excitation, of Normal Specimens of Compressed Steel, Bessemer Steel and Norway Iron Rods -- XIII. On the Magnetic Properties at High Excitations of a remarkably Pure Specimen of Soft Norway Iron -- XIV. The Conception of the Derivative of a Scalar Point Function with respect to another Similar Function -- XV. The Effect of Leakage at the Edges upon the Temperatures within a Homogeneous Lamina through which Heat is being Conducted -- XVI. The Magnitude of an Error which sometimes affects the Results of Magnetic Tests upon Iron and Steel Rings -- XVII. The Resistivity of Hardened Cast Iron as a Measure of its Temper and of its Fitness for Use in Permanent Magnets -- XVIII. The Magnetic Permeabilities at Low Excitations of Two Kinds of very Pure Soft Iron -- XIX. The Effects of Sudden Changes in the Inductances of Electric Circuits as illustrative of the Absence of Magnetic Lag and of the Von Waltenhofen Phenomenon in Finely Divided Cores. Certain Mechanical Analogies of the Electrical Problems -- XX. The Anomalous Magnetization of Iron and Steel -- XXI. The Maximum Value of the Magnetization in Iron -- Bibliography