[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[JAMES ROGERS]

Enough with the Maxwell Equations.... What in the world does this represent to the average K3 user? .
On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Tom Azlin N4ZPT wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> What was asserted in "The Maxwellians" was that Maxwell died in the 
> middle of a rewrite. It did sound like there was a controversy on his 
> particle (or little eddies?) form of the equations for a field approach. 
>  Perhaps that new version would have dropped  the use of quaternions? 
> Have not studied the equations since college, perhaps will go find the 
> papers after I finish this history book. Thanks for the tip on locating 
> the older forms.
> 
> 73, tom n4zpt
> 
> On 3/10/2011 1:46 AM, Kevin Rock wrote:
>> 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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