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  2. History of Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    Equation (112) is Ampère's circuital law, with Maxwell's addition of displacement current. This may be the most remarkable contribution of Maxwell's work, enabling him to derive the electromagnetic wave equation in his 1865 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, showing that light is an electromagnetic wave. This lent the ...

  3. James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician [1] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

  4. Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    Maxwell's equations may be combined to demonstrate how fluctuations in electromagnetic fields (waves) propagate at a constant speed in vacuum, c (299 792 458 m/s [2]). Known as electromagnetic radiation , these waves occur at various wavelengths to produce a spectrum of radiation from radio waves to gamma rays .

  5. A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field - Wikipedia

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    The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic laws. Maxwell's derivation of the electromagnetic wave equation has been replaced in modern physics by a much less cumbersome method ...

  6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Warwick (2003): "In developing the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism in the Treatise, Maxwell made a number of errors, and for students with only a tenuous grasp of the physical concepts of basic electromagnetic theory and the specific techniques to solve some problems, it was extremely difficult to discriminate between ...

  7. History of electromagnetic theory - Wikipedia

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    In his 1864 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, Maxwell wrote, The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic laws. [129]

  8. File:A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.pdf

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on as.wikipedia.org সৰণ প্ৰৱাহ; Usage on en.wikisource.org Index:A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.pdf

  9. On Physical Lines of Force - Wikipedia

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    In it, Maxwell derived the equations of electromagnetism in conjunction with a "sea" of "molecular vortices" which he used to model Faraday's lines of force. Maxwell had studied and commented on the field of electricity and magnetism as early as 1855/56 when "On Faraday's Lines of Force" [ 2 ] was read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society .