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Richard Clark, KB7QHC wrote:
"You mean he named one of his laws after Gauss?"
I suggested Art read Griffith`s "Radio-Electronic Transmission
Fundamentals". It opens with a brief history of electrical knowledge. It
says that Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831
and that simultaneously, far away in America, a professor named Joseph
Henry independently made the same discovery.
By this time we already had Colounb`s Law, Ampere`s rule, Gauss` Law,
concerning the relationship between the magnetic field and induced
voltage. Nothing seemed to tie these miscellaneous relationships
together until James Clerk Maxwell, a child prodigy, who entered the
University of Edinburg at age 13 years and was a brilliant student, put
it all together in his unifying equations and published a book,
Electromagnetic Theory. Oliver Heaviside read the book and simplified
for the less erudite, teaching himself the mathematics necessary to
understand Maxwell as he went.
Unless Art has something that Maxwell and Heaviside didn`t cover, it`s
no time to shout eureka! We`ve taken Gauss from the static and made him
dynamic.
Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI
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