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History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 7 (1/31/01)
Understanding Maxwell's theory
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Making sense of Maxwell
German traditions in electromagnetism
Hertz's experiment
The trouble
Reformulating Maxwell's theory
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(electric) charges and currents
Wilhelm Weber (1804-1891)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)
"Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations" |
displacement (D)
displacement current (~ dE/dt) |
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