Kevin and all, Check out the wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations and about halfway down look for the section named "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" where it talks a little about it. In short, Cartesian vs vector! 73, Mike ab3ap On 03/06/11 17:37, Kevin Rock wrote: > I have always wondered how he condensed the original twenty equations in > twenty unknowns down to just four of them. The quaternions he used > initially were out a favor with the physics community of the day so he > needed to get them into vector form. Heaviside did a good job but how do > you characterize a system with twenty unknowns in four equations? What > has been lost in the translation? > Kevin. KD5ONS ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
