Seventeen Equations that Changed the World by Ian Stewart

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World by Ian Stewart

Author:Ian Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00


11 Waves in the ether

Maxwell’s Equations

What do they say?

Electricity and magnetism can’t just leak away. A spinning region of electric field creates a magnetic field at right angles to the spin. A spinning region of magnetic field creates an electric field at right angles to the spin, but in the opposite direction.

Why is that important?

It was the first major unification of physical forces, showing that electricity and magnetism are intimately interrelated.

What did it lead to?



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