Lecture 26 Maxwell Equations - The Full Story

“From a long view of the history of mankind—seen from, say, ten thousand years from now—there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as
Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.” --Richard Feynman

What was James Clerk Maxwell's stroke of genius? The one that enabled global communications and the information age?

Plus: Flex your calculus muscles to find the differential form of Maxwell's equations.

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It would have been nice when I took calculus 3 to have divergence and curl explained in the context of the EM equations as something with physical relevance, rather than as they were taught (not at Purdue but some other big engineering school) as random things from outer space. Nice lecture!

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