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James MacCullagh MRIA FRS (1809 – 24
October 1847) was an
Irish mathematician and scientist. He
served as the
Erasmus Smith's
Professor of Mathematics...
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Christian MacCullagh (1832–1917) was an
Anglican priest in the
second half of the 19th
century and the
first two
decades of the 20th century.
MacCullagh was...
- The
MacCullagh ellipsoid is
defined by the equation: x 2 A + y 2 B + z 2 C = 2 E , {\displaystyle {\frac {x^{2}}{A}}+{\frac {y^{2}}{B}}+{\frac {z^{2}}{C}}=2E...
- Lyons,
MacAuley,
MacBride,
MacCabe, McCann,
MacCarthy,
MacCormack,
MacCullagh,
MacDermot,
MacDonagh,
MacDonald,
MacDonnell,
MacEvoy,
MacGillcuddy,
MacGovern...
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birefringent medium, plus a
variation in
density between media.
James MacCullagh and
Franz Ernst Neumann avoided this
complication by
supposing that a...
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velocity field u is the
vector field to
solve for. In 1839,
James MacCullagh presented field equations to
describe reflection and
refraction in "An...
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apparently first used in the
construction of an
optical field theory by
James MacCullagh in 1839. Right-hand rule The curl of a
vector field F,
denoted by curl...
- The term index surface was
coined by James
MacCullagh in 1837. In a
previous paper, read in 1833,
MacCullagh had
called this
surface the "surface of refraction"...
- Dirichlet, Weber, Kirchhoff, F. Neumann, Lord Kelvin, Clausius, Bjerknes,
MacCullagh, and
Fuhrmann to
physics in general. The
labors of
Helmholtz should be...
- § History). The
success of the
complex reflection coefficient inspired James MacCullagh and Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
beginning in 1836, to
analyze reflection from...
