[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Kevin Rock]

I could not find the original equations on that site.  Just the normal  
sets which are beaten into us as undergrads.  Where are the twenty  
quaternion equations which Maxwell created initially?  Not the ones by  
Gibbs and Heaviside but the ones crafted by Maxwell?
    Kevin.  KD5ONS




On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:06:50 -0800, Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Kevin and all,
>
> Check out the wiki page
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations
>
> and about halfway down look for the section named "A Dynamical Theory of
> the Electromagnetic Field" where it talks a little about it.  In short,
> Cartesian vs vector!
>
> 73,
> Mike ab3ap
>
> On 03/06/11 17:37, Kevin Rock wrote:
>> I have always wondered how he condensed the original twenty equations in
>> twenty unknowns down to just four of them.  The quaternions he used
>> initially were out a favor with the physics community of the day so he
>> needed to get them into vector form.  Heaviside did a good job but how  
>> do
>> you characterize a system with twenty unknowns in four equations?  What
>> has been lost in the translation?
>>     Kevin.  KD5ONS
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