A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume III: Electricity, Magnetism and Light

Iron, Loadstones and Terrestrial Magnetism.- The Life and Death of a Magnet.- Conservation of Electrical Charge.- Muschenbroek's Wonderful Bottle.- Thunder and Lightning.- Coulomb's Law.- The Dawn of Electro-Magnetism.- Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces.- Work and Weight.- Kinetic and Potential Energy.- Conservation of Energy.- Geometric Optics.- The Wave Theory of Light.- Huygens' Principle.- Reflection of Light Waves.- Opacity, Transparency and Snell's Law.- Atmospheric Refraction.- The Particle Theory of Light.- Passive Laws and Active Principles.- Measuring Light's Wavelength.- Films, Bubbles and Rainbows.- Producing and Detecting Polarization.- Crystal Symmetry and Light Rotation.- Light Scattering.- Induction of Electrical Currents.- Arago's Mysterious Wheel.- Faraday's Law.- The Magnetic Field.- Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism.- Action-at-a-Distance.- Maxwell's Equations.- Propagating Electromagnetic Fields.- Circuits, Antennae and Radiation.- The Michelson-Morley Experiment.