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Lecture on Maxwell's Equations

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From: frisinv
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:42
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  As part of a project on creativity in math, I am giving a short lecture  
on Maxwell's equations to a group of college freshmen who have not had  
extensive math and physics (everyone has had calc 1 and highschool physics  
w/o calc). I can handle explaining the equations themselves in words IF I  
use the integral forms. However, I also want to show the derivation of E-M  
waves from them, a messy process. Does anyone have an idea or two on how  
to do this in a comprehensible way? The idea isn't to teach the class  
electomagnetic theory, just to give them a general idea of Maxwell's  
equations and why light is a form of E-M wave.

Email frisinv@alleg.edu with any ideas.

Vincent Frisina
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