THE 1820s PHYSICS PUZZLE
Across
- 4. – The law relating current, electromotive force, and resistance, first published in 1827
- 5. – Flow of electric charge along a wire
- 9. – Author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824), a foundational work on heat engines
- 11. – Self‑taught English electrician who built the first practical electromagnet in 1825
- 13. – French physicist whose electrodynamic theory earned him the title “Newton of electricity”
- 14. – English polymath who died in 1829 and first demonstrated the interference of light
Down
- 1. – Instrument devised by Ampère to measure electric current precisely
- 2. – The type of wire coil, invented by Ampère, that behaves like a bar magnet when a current passes
- 3. – The theory of heat abandoned during the 1820s, which Carnot still used in his analysis
- 6. – Soft iron shape used by Sturgeon to concentrate the magnetic effect
- 7. – Optical effect confirmed by the famous “spot” experiment, proving the wave theory of light
- 8. – Late French physicist who championed the wave theory of light and invented a remarkable lighthouse lens
- 10. – Danish professor who discovered that an electric current deflects a compass needle
- 12. – The property that Ørsted proved was produced by an electric current