[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Tom Azlin N4ZPT]

Hi Kevin,

Was not Maxwell that condensed the hard to understand original theory. 
Was some his disciples, aka "The Maxwellians," that finished the theory 
in the present form.  FitzGerald, Lodge, and Heavyside plus others.

Am just now reading "The Maxwellians" that has this story.

73, tom n4zpt



On 3/6/2011 5:37 PM, 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