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History 181B:  Modern Physics
Class 6 (1/29/01)
Electromagnetism
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Outline Field physics
What is a field?
Maxwell on Faraday
Other analogies
Physical optics:  the nature of light
Huygens and Newton
Corpuscular theories
Interference and waves
Connecting optics to electromagnetism
Empirical unification
The electromagnetic-luminiferous aether
Names and terms
Primary Secondary
lines of force, field
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
"On Faraday's lines of force" (1855)
physical analogy
luminiferous aether
longitudinal, transverse
interference
magnetooptic rotation (Faraday effect)
vortex
"On physical lines of force" (1861-1862)
Treatise on electricity and magnetism (1873)
Maxwell's theory		 George Green (1793-1841)
Carl-Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Christian Huygens (1629-1695)
polarization
Thomas Young (1773-1829)
Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827)
vortex atom
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