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![]() "Richard Clark" wrote ... On Sun, 31 May 2009 21:08:22 +0200, Szczepan Bia?ek wrote: But do you know what the electricity was like in the Maxwell theory from 1865? It employed 20 equations with 20 unknowns. Can you name THREE? Let's skip that, because you can not, of course. It was recast as quaternions - I won't ask the impossible from you to state TWO. You have yet to manage how long it took for ONE electron to travel end-to-end on Hertz's first loop. So answering your questions is like sending Cuisinart to Darfur. Do you know what electricity is like there? Any year? "1861 - Maxwell publishes a mechanical model of the electromagnetic field. Magnetic fields correspond to rotating vortices with idle wheels between them and electric fields correspond to elastic displacements, hence displacement currents. The equation for now becomes , where is the total current, conduction plus displacement, and is conserved: . This addition completes Maxwell's equations and it is now easy for him to derive the wave equation exactly as done in our textbooks on electromagnetism and to note that the speed of wave propagation was close to the measured speed of light. Maxwell writes, ``We can scarcely avoid the inference that light in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.'' Thomson, on the other hand, says of the displacement current, ``(it is a) curious and ingenious, but not wholly tenable hypothesis.'' "1864 - Maxwell reads a memoir before the Royal Society in which the mechanical model is stripped away and just the equations remain. He also discusses the vector and scalar potentials, using the Coulomb gauge. He attributes physical significance to both of these potentials. He wants to present the predictions of his theory on the subjects of reflection and refraction, but the requirements of his mechanical model keep him from finding the correct boundary conditions, so he never does this calculation." From: http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html Try understand: "the mechanical model is stripped away and just the equations remain." Now engineers are using model with compressible, massive electrons. The equations are used by teacher to teach the math. According to Maxwell model the radio waves are transversal. Are such in your radio reality? S* 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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