PX384 Electrodynamics
Lecturer: Dr Erwin Verwichte
Email: Erwin.Verwichte (at) warwick.ac.uk
Office: PS1.09
If you have a questions about the module please get in touch with me or come and see me in person.
Module material
The questions to the problems can be found at the end of the slides of each chapter.
Electric: coined in Mod.L. by Eng. physicist William Gilbert (1540-1603) in treatise De Magnete (1600), from L. electrum amber, from Gk. elektron amber, also pale gold (a compound of 1 part silver to 4 of gold); of unknown origin. The physical force so called because it first was generated by rubbing amber.
Magnet: from L. magnetum (nom. magnes) lodestone, from Gk. ho Magnes lithos the Magnesian stone, from Magnesia, region in Thessaly where magnetized ore was obtained.
Plasma: from Gk., something molded or created. Coined by Irving Langmuir in 1927 for the mixture of high-speed electrons and ions in electrified fluids, because it reminded him of red and white blood cells in plasma of blood vessels.
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
