tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post115599386370155400..comments2023-11-05T03:23:39.028-08:00Comments on Angry Physics: KakuAngryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464835370517136806noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-65679296357609429622010-12-21T08:04:18.003-08:002010-12-21T08:04:18.003-08:00Kaku is a very interesting topic, I think that thi...Kaku is a very interesting topic, I think that this work was so interesting because is so complicated study atoms and the others things about it.viagra onlinehttp://www.iservepharmacy.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-1156638612805091872006-08-26T17:30:00.000-07:002006-08-26T17:30:00.000-07:0008 26 06Oops, I meant popular physicists in pop cu...08 26 06<BR/><BR/>Oops, I meant popular physicists in pop culture!<BR/><BR/>And I do think that Maxwell's equations are beautiful with the symmetries and so forth. I learned about the duality transformations and E and B field shadows, rather painfully from JD Jackson's book. That guy is really nice, but that book is not so nice!Mahndisa S. Rigmaidenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507292526980604567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-1156638515564153322006-08-26T17:28:00.000-07:002006-08-26T17:28:00.000-07:0008 26 06Maybe he is talking about the differential...08 26 06<BR/><BR/>Maybe he is talking about the differential forms for the vacuum, then the equations in matter. In the Griffiths book for undergrad E&M they list the equations and lay all of eight them out on the very last page, while beneath them are the auxillary field equations. <BR/><BR/>I realize, however, that popular physics in the pop culture are not necessarily prolific or have contributed great things to science, they simply have charm.Mahndisa S. Rigmaidenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507292526980604567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-1156611387151797532006-08-26T09:56:00.000-07:002006-08-26T09:56:00.000-07:00Eight Maxwell equations? Did Maxwell arise from ...<I>Eight</I> Maxwell equations? Did Maxwell arise from the grave and pronounce four additional equations since I left school? <BR/><BR/>Anyone who thinks Maxwell's equations are ugly must not have been taught with Jackson's _Classical Electrodynamics_, a book which instills aesthetic appreciation along with calculational skill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-1156389092409129082006-08-23T20:11:00.000-07:002006-08-23T20:11:00.000-07:00Ugly? Ugly? Ugly!No. Come on, there are much uglie...Ugly? Ugly? Ugly!<BR/><BR/>No. Come on, there are much uglier equations in physics. And we're talking electromagnetic radiation here...pretty important stuff by any measure (biological, chemical, physical, artistic, etc). These equations describe light, they unify what had always been separate, namely electric and magnetic fields. These are wonderful equations.Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464835370517136806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26325744.post-1156103782472948062006-08-20T12:56:00.000-07:002006-08-20T12:56:00.000-07:00I don't know how they taught Maxwell's equations a...I don't know how they taught Maxwell's equations at Harvard back then. I heard some horror stories about the undergraduate math curriculum there, and I vividly remember the equations as I learned them at Butler U. in the early fifties. Yes they were ugly. <BR/><BR/>Covariant? It is to laugh! The prof didn't truly believe in relativity. The displacement current rode high in his explanation with the kind of metaphysical motivation that I thought had vanished from physics until Susskind came along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com