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Maxwell's equations   /mˈækswˌɛlz ɪkwˈeɪʒənz/   Listen
Maxwell's equations

noun
1.
Four differential equations that summarize classical properties of electromagnetic fields.





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"Maxwell's equations" Quotes from Famous Books



... is negative. Let us call it -c squared, where c will be of the dimensions of a velocity. This case yields the formulae of transformation which Larmor discovered for the transformation of Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. These formulae were extended by H. A. Lorentz, and used by Einstein and Minkowski as the basis of their novel theory of relativity. I am not now speaking of Einstein's more recent theory of general ...
— The Concept of Nature - The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 • Alfred North Whitehead


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