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(Updated below) A recent issue of The Institute has an interesting article pointing out the role Oliver Heaviside played in developing Maxwell's equations as we know them today. Michael Geselowitz ...
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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Maxwell's equations formulated for media with gradually changing conductivity are reduced to Volterra integral equations. Analytical and ...
Born 175 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces. Francis Everitt examines the immense contributions of the greatest mathematical physicist since ...