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    the University of Birmingham until his death. Poynting was the youngest son of Thomas Elford Poynting, a Unitarian minister. He was born at the parsonage...
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  • electrodynamics, Poynting's theorem is a statement of conservation of energy for electromagnetic fields developed by British physicist John Henry Poynting. It states...
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    unit of the Poynting vector is the watt per square metre (W/m2); kg/s3 in base SI units. It is named after its discoverer John Henry Poynting who first...
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  • Poynting may refer to: John Henry Poynting (1852–1914), a British physicist, after whom are named: Poynting vector, a representation of the energy flux...
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  • The Poynting–Robertson effect, also known as Poynting–Robertson drag, named after John Henry Poynting and Howard P. Robertson, is a process by which solar...
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    Earth's average density is 5.48 times greater than that of water. John Henry Poynting later noted that the data should have led to a value of 5.448, and...
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  • All of these effects are named after John Henry Poynting, an English physicist. In solid mechanics, the Poynting effect is a Finite strain theory effect...
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    the clock tower was the "Poynting Tower", after one of the earliest professors at the University, Professor John Henry Poynting. A prominent landmark in...
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    university studies at the college, where he was taught physics by John Henry Poynting and chemistry by Frankland and Tilden. In 1881, Charles Lapworth...
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    college of University of London) where he was taught physics by John Henry Poynting and chemistry by Frankland and Tilden. From 1896 on he conducted...
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