In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
- This work by Thomson in 1856 on electricity and magnetism is important for it was these ideas which led Maxwell to develop his remarkable new theory of electromagnetism.
- Research into the apparently unrelated field of electricity and magnetism produced a startling confirmation of the wave theory of light.
- Other images also surfaced from the Dance Lab experiments, including the opposing forces of magnetism and repulsion.
- Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, for example, united the previously disjointed phenomena of electricity and magnetism.
- The grand aim of De Magnete - to take magnetism beyond the simple use of the compass to find north - was not as successful as Gilbert and Wright had hoped.
- Isaac Newton had described gravity 200 years earlier; James Maxwell had explained the phenomena of electricity and magnetism with his equations in 1873.
- Ampère proposed electrical currents in atoms to explain magnetism and Poisson showed how electrostatic induction could be explained by assuming atomic dipoles.
- The force of magnetism, or magnetic field, is much stronger at the magnet poles than around the equator.
- Relativity would arrive, not from concerns over the flaws in Newton's mechanics, but rather from contemplating the forces of electricity and magnetism as well as the mysteries of light.
- In conventional magnets, magnetism is the result of electron spins lining up.
- Studying the interrelation of electricity and magnetism, Faraday struggled to explain how forces could act at a distance.
- In many ways, dragging is to gravity what magnetism is to electricity.
- In 1820 the Danish physicist H C Orsted produced experimental results on electricity and magnetism.
- That same year, 1600, De Magnete was published, and was quickly accepted as the standard work on magnetism and electrical phenomena throughout Europe.
- Maxwell's theoretical unification of electricity and magnetism was engineered into the modern human power to communicate across space at the speed of light.
- This force includes the magnetic effects of moving charges and underlies such everyday forces as friction and magnetism.
- When Faraday worked out electricity and magnetism he set into motion the electric age.
- In 1821, Hans Oersted demonstrated that electricity and magnetism were interrelated.
- People with pacemakers and defibrillators who use arc welding devices and other kinds of heavy energy that involve magnetism or electricity tend to have problems.
- I mentioned to him that Einstein was very struck as a young high school student by Maxwell's equations, the laws of electricity and magnetism, and that they made a very deep impression on him.
English has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
Many words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
As their breed names often attest, dogs are a truly international bunch. Let’s take a look at 12 different dog breed names and their backstories.