Table of Contents

Preface; Preface to the second edition; 1. Fundamental conceptions in magnetism; 2. The production and measurement of magnetic fields; 3. Susceptibility measurements with isotropic substances; 4. The magnetic properties of crystals; 5. Experiments with single particles; 6. Nuclear spins and magnetic moments; 7. Gyromagnetic effects; 8. Magnetic saturation and equation of state; 9. Energy changes associated with reversible magnetisation; 10. Magnetostriction; 11. Interpretation of the hysteresis cycle; 12. Recent work on ferromagnetic substances; 13. Recent work on weakly magnetic substances; 14. Radiofrequency spectroscopy; 15. Adiabatic demagnetisation and its applications; 16. Paramagnetic absorption and dispersion; Notes; Subject index; Name index.

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First published in 1948, this textbook discusses magnetism from an experimental standpoint rather than from a strictly theoretical one.