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On 01/16/2016 07:16 PM, Double-A wrote:
> On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 12:38:31 PM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Feynman | Maxwell's Equations
>>> http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_18.html
>>
>>> 18-1Maxwell's equations
>>>
>>
>>> In this chapter we come back to the complete set of the four Maxwell
>>> equations that we took as our starting point in Chapter 1. Until now,
>>> we have been studying Maxwell's equations in bits and pieces; it is
>>> time to add one final piece, and to put them all together. We will
>>> then have the complete and correct story for electromagnetic fields
>>> that may be changing with time in any way. Anything said in this
>>> chapter that contradicts something said earlier is true and what was
>>> said earlier is false--because what was said earlier applied to such
>>> special situations as, for instance, steady currents or fixed
>>> charges. Although we have been very careful to point out the
>>> restrictions whenever we wrote an equation, it is easy to forget all
>>> of the qualifications and to learn too well the wrong equations. Now
>>> we are ready to give the whole truth, with no qualifications (or
>>> almost none).
>>
>>> The complete Maxwell equations are written in Table 18-1, in words as
>>> well as in mathematical symbols. The fact that the words are
>>> equivalent to the equations should by this time be familiar--you
>>> should be able to translate back and forth from one form to the
>>> other.
>>
>>
>>> Copyright (c) 1964, 2006, 2013 by the California Institute of Technology,
>>> Michael A. Gottlieb, and Rudolf Pfeiffer
>
>
> Maxwell did not write down those 4 equations.  Oliver Heaviside did.
>
> Double-A

You wouldn't expect some spamming shithead who only knows enough to post 
the work of others to know that, would you AA?

Sam thinks that by plagiarizing Feynman he makes himself look smart.

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Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 14:38 -0600
  Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 21:23 +0000
    Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 14:02 -0800
      Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations "Barffolomew" <invalid@example.com> - 2016-01-16 16:04 -0800
        Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 20:38 -0800
    Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 16:33 -0600
      Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 23:11 +0000
        Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 18:03 -0600
  Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-01-16 16:16 -0800
    Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 18:37 -0600
    Re: Feynman | Maxwell's Equations benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 22:04 -0500

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