Thermal Agitation of Electric Charge in Conductors

✍ Scribed by Nyquist, H.

• Book ID: 121321604
• Publisher: The American Physical Society
• Year: 1928
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 199 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-899X
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.32.110

✦ Synopsis

Tke electromotive force die to tkernsul agitation in conductors is calculated by means of principles in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The results obtained agree with results, obtained experimentally. R. J. B. JOHNSON' has reported the discovery and measurement of an electromotive force in conductors which is related in a simple manner to the temperature of the conductor and which is attributed by him to the thermal agitation of the carriers of electricity in the conductors. The work to he resported in the present paper was undertaken after Johnson's results were available to the writer and consists of a theoretical deduction of the electromotive force in question from thermodynamics and statistical me- chanics. '

Consider two conductors each of resistance R and of the same uniform temperature T connected in the manner indicated ' See preceding paper.