INDEX. 



(The numbers refer to Pages.) 



Absolute electrometers, 281 



,, value, 2 

 Absorption, electric, 402 

 Acceleration, definition of, 94 



,, unit of, 99 



Action and reaction, 96 

 Activity, equation of, 125 



for steady flow, 334 



of circuit, 479 

 Addition, geometric, 9 

 Adiabatic changes, 470 



motion, 133, 134 

 Africa, 536 



d'Alembert's Principle, 107 

 Algebraic function, 14 

 Ampere, 409, 412, 416, 431, 449, 471 



unit, 416 



Amphigenic charge, 260 

 Amplitude of oscillation, 479 

 Angle, solid, 76 

 Apparent charge, 359 



,, current, 443 

 Argand, 8, 79 



Argument of complex number, 8 

 Arithmetic, 1 

 Arithmetical mean, 39 

 Arons, 399, 400, 407 

 Association, British, 416 

 Associative law, 1 

 Attenuation of waves, 546 

 Axioms, physical, 95 

 Axis of polarized distribution, 242 



Bacharach, 171 

 Bedell, 479 

 Beltrami, 199 

 Bessel's functions, 545 



Betti, 256 



Bichat, 282 



Biot, 420 



Blondlot, 282, 534 



Blumcke, 502 



Body in motion, equations for, 555 



du Bois, 375 



du Bois-Eeymond, 41 



Boltzmann, 139, 142 



Bosanquet, 360 



Boston, 550 



Bound charge, 246 



Boussinesq, 66, 522, 540, 541 



Bowl, spherical, distribution on, 302 



Boynton, 548 



Branch-point, 89 



Bridge, Wheatstone's, 342 



British Association, 100, 416 



Cable, submarine, 534 



Cadmium ray, wave-length of, 97 



Calculus of variations, 48 



Capacity, 265, 360 



,, of cylindrical condenser, 278 



,, of ellipsoid, 274 



, , and inductance, neutralization 



of, 480 



,, instantaneous, 404 

 of plane condenser, 279 

 ,, specific inductive, 357 

 ,, of spherical condenser, 275 



Cavendish, 251 



Cavity, force in, 231 



Cayley, 85 



Centimeter, 97 



Centrifugal force, 138 



Centrobaric body, 155 



