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How did Maxwell Derive his equations? Can we derive the same by conducting any experiment?
$$
\begin{aligned}
\nabla \cdot \mathbf{E} &=\frac{\rho}{\varepsilon_{0}} \\
\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} &=0 \\
\nabla \times \mathbf{E} &=-\frac{\partial \mathbf{B}}{\partial t} \\
\nabla \...
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What are the basic principles of experimental electromagnetism? [closed]
I want to learn about experimental physics in the context of electrodynamics and electrostatics. Basically I'd like to know how we are able to measure different quantities in this field (electric ...
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How do we know the direction of magnetic field that we assign to it?
In my class, I was taught about Biot Savart Law and how to calculate direction of magnetic field as a cross product of radial vector from current element and the length vector of current element.
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Origin of physics laws [closed]
I am a math student and I have been self studying physics lately. I am going to take a course on electromagnetism this year, so I searched for books that are mathematically rigorous on that topic. And ...
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Electromagnetic Momentum
My book says : The fact that electromagnetic radiation of energy carried momentum was known from classical theory and from the experiments of Nichols and Hull in 1903. This relation is also consistent ...
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First experiment which was used to prove existence of Electromagnetic waves
When I was in high school I heard from my physics teacher in the last year of high school when he was starting the chapter of electromagnetic waves that the first person who proved existence of ...
