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    Cathode Rays

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateApr 11, 2021
    ISBN4064066443658
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      Cathode Rays - Joseph John Thomson

      Joseph John Thomson

      Cathode Rays

      Published by Good Press, 2022

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      EAN 4064066443658

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      PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

      JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

      LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN

      PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

      Table of Contents

      AND

      JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

      Table of Contents

      [FIFTH SERIES.]

      XL. Cathode rays. By J. J. THOMSON, M.A., F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge[1].

      THE experiments [2] discussed in this paper were undertaken in the hope of gaining some information as to the nature of the Cathode Rays. The most diverse opinions are held as to these rays; according to the almost unanimous opinion of German physicists they are due to some process in the æther to which—inasmuch as in a uniform magnetic field their course is circular and not rectilinear—no phenomenon hitherto observed is analogous: another view of these rays is that, so far from being wholly ætherial, they are in fact wholly material, and that they mark the paths of particles of matter charged with negative electricity. It would seem at first sight that it ought not to be difficult to discriminate between views so different, yet experience shows that this is the case, as amongst the physicists who have most deeply studied the subject can be found supporters of either theory.

      The electrified-particle theory has for purposes of research a great advantage over the ætherial theory, since it is definite and its consequences can be predicted; with the ætherial theory it is impossible to predict what will happen under any given circumstances, as on this theory we are dealing with hitherto ​unobserved phenomena in the æther, of whose laws we are ignorant.

      The following experiments were made to test some of the consequences of the electrified-particle theory.

      Charge carried by the Cathode Rays.

      If these rays are negatively electrified particles, then when they enter an enclosure they ought to carry into it a charge of negative electricity. This has been proved to be the case by Perrin, who placed in front of a plane cathode two coaxial metallic cylinders which were insulated from each other: the outer of these cylinders was connected with the earth, the inner with a gold-leaf electroscope. These cylinders were closed except for two small holes, one in each cylinder, placed so that the cathode rays could pass through them into the inside of the inner cylinder. Perrin found that when the rays passed into the inner cylinder the electroscope received a charge of negative electricity, while no charge went to the electroscope when the rays were deflected by a magnet so as no longer to pass through the hole.

      This experiment proves that something charged with negative

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