Re: Magnetic N and S poles

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        Does Frank, <Electricity and Optics> (1940) used by MIT sophomores
in their first E&M course qualify?
                                Regards,
                                        Jack

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

> My question was about an introductory physics textbook,
> not about a text for seniors or other advanced readers.
>
> > When did the transition occur? Which introductory textbook
> > was the first to use the Lorentz force law: F = q (v cross B)
>
> I suspect that no introductory textbook published before 1945
> defined B in terms of  Lorentz formula. But I may be wrong.
> Ludwik Kowalski
>
> Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > Brian McInnes wrote:
> >
> > > Harnwell's book was one of the MacGraw-Hill International Series
> > > of Pure and Applied Physics.  A glance through the books from this
> > > series listed on the frontpiece page is a trip down memory lane.
> >
> > Right!  It was my Sr. text.  I still refer to it often.  (along with J. & W.
> > and not so often , Goldstein and P. &  P.

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