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From the Discovery of Electro-Magnetism and Electro-Magnetic Induction to the Maxwell Equations

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This lecture discusses, in its first part, the discovery of the physical phenomenon of electro-magnetism, as found in 1820 by the Danish professor of physics Hans Christian Ørsted and the discovery of the effects of electro-dynamics due to the French mathematician André Marie Ampère in 1820–1823.

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    Maxwell was born in Edinburgh in 1831; he graduated from Cambridge University in 1855; worked on electro-magnetism at King’s College, London, 1860–1865; and after an interruption, started up the Cavendish Laboratory of experimental physics as professor at Cambridge in 1871–1879.

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    The Royal Institution was founded by Benjamin Thompson in 1799 to further scientific research, loosely associated with the Royal Society. Maxwell’s King’s College, was near the Royal Institution, and Maxwell heard lectures as well as visiting Faraday there.

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Pichler, F. (2020). From the Discovery of Electro-Magnetism and Electro-Magnetic Induction to the Maxwell Equations. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2019. EUROCAST 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45093-9_17

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