[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Alexey Kats]

"What Descartes  did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and
especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical
consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the
shoulders of Giants." (Isaac Newton)

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, 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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Alexey Kats (neko)