"K1TTT" wrote
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On Jul 4, 4:19 pm, "Szczepan Bialek" wrote:

In electromagnetics Maxwell and Heaveside are the experts. Available on
line.

unfortunately you have to learn modern em to know what writings of
maxwell and heaveside to bother believing... they both went through
learning periods before they came to the final transverse wave
formulations. if you read their earlier works you will be mislead
because they were still learning and following dead end paths like
aether theory and fluid analogies.

Maxwell's aether was as perfect solid with the molecular vortices. The
magnetic field was the sum of the molecular.
The Faraday effect was explained. Transverse waves possible. But in solid
possible are also the longitudinal.
Which of them are in reality decide experiments.

Heaviside modified Maxwell' model. His aether is also motionless but withot
the molecular vortices:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Electr..._moving_charge

Now inside the solenoid no rotations. What rotate the polarisation plane?

Heaviside (father of Maxwell' equations) did not understand Maxwell and did
not agree with the rest:

"Prof. Thomson, who otherwise confirms my results, has also extended the
matter by supposing that the medium itself is set in motion, as well as the
electrification. This is somewhat beyond me. I do not yet know certainly
that the ether can move, or its laws of motion if it can. Fresnel thought
the earth could move through the ether without disturbing it; Stokes, that
it carried the ether along with it, by giving irrotational motion to it."

" I must, however, disagree with Prof. Thomson's assumption that the motion
must be irrotational. It would appear, by the above, that this limitation is
unnecessary."

I simply agree with Maxwell, Stokes, Thompson and the rest famous scientists
that no rotational vibrations (transverse waves).

You prefer Heaviside (engineer) and Authors of the textbooks .
S*