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Maxwell's Equations:
Maxwell's Equations #4
Category: Maxwell's Equations
Fundamentally Maxwell's equations describe the origins of electric and magnetic fields. Given a set of conditions on the right hand side of the equations, you'll have fields described by the left hand side. Between the four equations the fields are...
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Maxwell's Equations #3
Category: Maxwell's Equations
So far we've seen that electric charges create electric fields. We've also seen that magnetic charges would create magnetic fields if there were any such things, but there aren't. If you're in the business of creating electric fields, as the...
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Maxwell's Equations #2
Category: Maxwell's Equations
In our examination of the first of Maxwell's four equations, we saw that magnetic charge doesn't exist as far as we can tell. On the other hand, electric charge permeates every aspect of our existence. The motion of charged electrons...
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Maxwell's Equations #1
Category: Maxwell's Equations
All this week we're going to be briefly looking at James Clerk Maxwell's greatest contribution to physics - his theory of electromagnetism. The consequences and applications of the theory fill many volumes, but the conceptual and mathematical foundations of the...
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