[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Kevin Rock]

There was a group which disliked his use of quaternions so he was forced  
to rewrite the system into other systems.  Most of the work was carried  
out by others but for him to publish he needed peer review so he caved  
into the larger group.  I am reading his original work from 1873 and  
finding it very enlightening.  Even though I have studied the  
Heaviside-Gibb's version of the Maxwell equations many times the  
quaternions he used in the original paper were very hard to find.  Luckily  
they are proliferating online these days.
    Kevin.  KD5ONS


On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:31:18 -0800, David Cutter <d.cutter at ntlworld.com>  
wrote:

> 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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