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On the Various Forces of Nature

Public domain audiobook

On the Various Forces of Nature

by Michael Faraday

English· 03:47:35· 12 chapters
A non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them. This is a series of lectures aimed at young people. He starts off with the most fundamental and familiar forces of all: Gravity and Heat. Then by a progression of examples and experiments goes on to describe atomic/molecular adhesion in solids, liquids and gases, which he groups under the rubric of "Chemical Affinity". And, no collection of Faraday's theories could omit his discoveries in Electricity and Magnetism. (Summary by William A Jones)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    00 Preface

    04:47
  2. Chapter 2

    01 Lecture 1 Part 1 The Force of Gravitation

    16:53
  3. Chapter 3

    02 Lecture 1 Part 2 The Force of Gravitation

    21:47
  4. Chapter 4

    03 Lecture 2 Part 1 Gravitation Cohesion

    20:20
  5. Chapter 5

    04 Lecture 2 Part 2 Gravitation Cohesion

    16:47
  6. Chapter 6

    05 Lecture 3 Part 1 Cohesion, Chemical Affinity

    20:18
  7. Chapter 7

    06 Lecture 3 Part 2 Cohesion, Chemical Affinity

    15:50
  8. Chapter 8

    07 Lecture 4 Chemical Affinity, Heat

    27:46
  9. Chapter 9

    08 Lecture 5 Magnetism, Electricity

    23:57
  10. Chapter 10

    09 Lecture 6 Correlation of the Physical Forces

    26:50
  11. Chapter 11

    10 Lighthouse Illumination, the Electric Light

    22:20
  12. Chapter 12

    11 Lecture Notes

    10:00