Visualising Magnetic Fields Numerical Equation Solvers in Action

The physicist Michael Faraday said that the study of magnetic lines of force was greatly influential in leading him to formulate many of those concepts that are now so fundamental to our modern world, proving to him their "great utility as well as fertility." Michael Faraday could only visualise these lines in his mind's eye and, even with modern computers to help us, it has been very expensive and time consuming to plot lines of force. This unique CD-ROM and book features a new technique that allows the visualisation of magnetic fields and magnetic flux density in a simple, fast and intuitive way. The book also explains how the new method and numerical equation solving algorithms work. Key features: * An overview of the physics of magnetic fields * A complete description of the theory behind the new technique * An overview of the theory of Gaussian elimination and Conjugate Gradient equation solvers (including a software application to visualise the algorithms in action) * Application software itself, the full source code and a plain English description of each procedure in the code Undergraduate and graduate students in electrical and electronic engineering, as well as physics, will find this CD-ROM and book indispensable in the study of magnetic fields. To practising engineers, industrial and academic scientists Visualising Magnetic Fields: Numerical Equation Solvers in Action will provide a versatile tool in research and teaching. Software programmers working with event driven code and mathematicians interested in algorithm visualisation will also find this CD-ROM and book a useful source of information. John S. Beeteson retired as a senior research scientist at IBM Greenock in 1998 after 20 years with IBM. He holds 40 US patents and many others worldwide, and was the inventor and co-inventor of two new magnetically based display technologies. Prior to joining the digital computer industry, Mr. Beeteson worked on radar systems and analogue computing.Beeteson, John Stuart is the author of 'Visualising Magnetic Fields Numerical Equation Solvers in Action', published 2000 under ISBN 9780120847310 and ISBN 0120847310.