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Worksheet 2
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| Target date | 2/7/03 | ||||
| Questions | 1. What did Oersted demonstrate?
2. Give one example of a contribution to electromagnetism by a French Laplacian. (It is the contribution, not the name, that is of interest.) 3. Give one reason why Faraday was dissatisfied with Laplacian action at a distance. 4. Define a field. (Well, give one definition.) 5. What did Maxwell mean by a "physical analogy"? Give an example. 6. In what direction do transverse waves vibrate? 7. What theory of light did the explanation of interference help support? 8. What is the luminiferous aether? 9. How did Maxwell contribute to unifying electromagnetism and optics? 10. What provoked Hertz to write, "Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations"? |
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