Reprint of papers on electrostatics and magnetism (1884)
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 · London Macmillan · leaf 288
t were supportedby one fibre; also, the sensibility being a minimum, a smalldeviation from the conditions which make it so will producethe least change of sensibility, by the known property of amaximum or minimum. To test whether these conditions areattained, raise first one side of the instrument… … 270 On Electrometers and Electrostatic Measurements, [xx. position of the instrument observe the deflection of the imageon the scale produced by some constant difference of potentials,as that between the two poles of a Daniells cell. This deflectionought to be very nearly equal in the three…
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