09-28-2015, 04:14 PM
(09-28-2015, 04:02 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I had to look up Maxwell's equations. I took calc based physics in college and I can't say I've ever heard of Maxwell's equations. Not sure how important it could be if I've never heard of it. I'd throw out germ theory off the top of my head as greater in importance. When did Maxwell publish his equations? After Darwin's On the Origin of Species, yet evolution needs more time to vet than the younger equation you list as #1 in importance?
Maxwell's equations are why you're able to be smug to others over the Internet.
They describe the relationship between electricity and magnetism and we basically owe our entire modern lifestyle to them.
It's a shame that everyone knows who Newton and Einstein are and nobody knows who maxwell was, even though he's arguably more important.
And if you took calc based physics 2 there's no way you didn't learn his equations.
