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A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

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was only published as a bound volume once a year, and would have been prepared for the society's anniversary day on 30 November (the exact date is not recorded). However, the printer would have prepared and delivered to Maxwell offprints, for the author to distribute as he wished, soon after 16 June.
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In part VI of "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", subtitled "Electromagnetic theory of light", Maxwell uses the correction to Ampère's Circuital Law made in part III of his 1862 paper, "On Physical Lines of Force", which is defined as
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said: "From the long view of this history of mankind – seen from, say, 10,000 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 electromagnetism."
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Maxwell's derivation of the electromagnetic wave equation has been replaced in modern physics by a much less cumbersome method which combines the corrected version of Ampère's Circuital Law with Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction.
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The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic
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To obtain the electromagnetic wave equation in a vacuum using the modern method, we begin with the modern 'Heaviside' form of Maxwell's equations. Using (SI units) in a vacuum, these equations are
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below, making a total of eight vector equations. These are listed below in Maxwell's original order, designated by the letters that Maxwell assigned to them in his 1864 paper.
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on 15 June 1865, by the Committee of Papers (essentially the society's governing council) and sent to the printer the following day (16 June). During this period,
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Any ray of light moves in the "stationary" system of co-ordinates with the determined velocity c, whether the ray be emitted by a stationary or by a moving body.
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In part III of the paper, which is entitled "General Equations of the Electromagnetic Field", Maxwell formulated twenty equations which were to become known as
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the same laws of electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good
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He obtained a wave equation with a speed in close agreement to experimental determinations of the speed of light. He commented,
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Heaviside's versions of Maxwell's equations are distinct by virtue of the fact that they are written in modern
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may be described, from left to right, as the motional term, the transformer term, and the conservative term.
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of the medium, and accordingly drops the cross-product term. But he still works from equation 
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This is simply the Lorentz force law on a per-unit-charge basis — although Maxwell's equation 
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on 8 December 1864, having been sent by Maxwell to the society on 27 October. It then underwent
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Maxwell did not consider completely general materials; his initial formulation used
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Works originally published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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Following standard procedure for the time, the paper was first read to the
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below, each of which represents a group of three original equations in
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is any vector function of space, we recover the wave equations
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Of this paper and Maxwell's related works, fellow physicist
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extending general relativity into five physical dimensions
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is different, and avoids the misleading first impression.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field/Part VI
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used Maxwell's equations as the starting point for his
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Eighteen of Maxwell's twenty original equations can be
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Maxwell, James C.; Torrance, Thomas F. (March 1996).
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Index

A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field
James Clerk Maxwell
electromagnetism
Royal Society
peer review
Lord Kelvin
George Gabriel Stokes
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Maxwell's equations
On Physical Lines of Force
vector notation
Gauss's Law
Ampère's circuital law
displacement current
Oliver Heaviside
vectorized
(A)
(F)
component form
(G)
(H)
J {\displaystyle \,\mathbf {J} }
magnetic potential
Ampère's circuital law
Lorentz force
Faraday's law of induction
Ohm's law
Gauss's law
continuity of charge
magnetic field

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