Conduction of Electricity through Gases. By J. J. Thomson, D.Sc., LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. Demy 8vo. viii + 568 pp. 16s.
CONTENTS.
I. Electrical Conductivity of Gases in a normal state.
II. Properties of a Gas when in the conducting state.
III. Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Electricity through a Gas containing Ions.
IV. Effect produced by a Magnetic Field on the Motion of the Ions.
V. Determination of the Ratio of the Charge to the Mass of an Ion.
VI. Determination of the Charge carried by the Negative Ion.
VII. On some Physical Properties of Gaseous Ions.
VIII. Ionisation by Incandescent Solids.
IX. Ionisation in Gases from Flames.
X. Ionisation by Light. Photo-Electric Effects.
XI. Ionisation by Röntgen Rays.
XII. Becquerel Rays.
XIII. Spark Discharge.
XIV. The Electric Arc.
XV. Discharge through Gases at Low Pressures.
XVI. Theory of the Discharge through Vacuum Tubes.
XVII. Cathode Rays.
XVIII. Röntgen Rays.
XIX. Properties of Moving Electrified Bodies.
Supplementary Notes.
Index.