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A critical examination of Benedicks' homogeneous electro-thermal effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

William Band
William Band
Affiliation:
Fitzwilliam HouseProfessor of Physics, Yenching University, Peiping, China
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In his work on mercury, Benedicks (1) observed that the small temperature peak in the neighbourhood of the middle of the long tube containing the conductor was displaced in one direction or the other along the tube according to the direction of flow of the electric current by which the conductor was heated. Normally this effect increased with the cube of the current intensity, and was explained as due to Thomson heat. If the temperature was made as uniform as possible by means of controlled heaters at the ends of the tube, the effect became of opposite sign and increased linearly with the current. This was called the “electro-thermal effect” and was explained as due to an actual change of thermal equilibrium by the electric current, or the production of a temperature gradient by a flow of electricity.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1937 , pp. 385 - 389
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1937

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(1)Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles, 130 (Hermann, 1933), where a bibliography is given.Google Scholar
(2)Arkiv f. Math. Ast. & Fys. (Stockholm), 25 A (1935), No. 9.Google Scholar