[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[David Cutter]

I don't recall that from his biography, I'll have to read it again. 
Interesting.

David
G3UNA


> 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
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