Today we finish off your high school physics career, as far as content goes!
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SURVIVAL SKILLS ever since sophomore year!!
Have a few seconds of celebration!!
Today we will wrap things up by defining one of the great mathematical achievements in science, which are known as Maxwell's equations. Maxwell was a wizard of math and had deep physics knowledge and intuition, and he was about the only one of his era that saw the connections between a bunch of individual, scattered discoveries over about one hundred years worth of work. Everyone knew that there was some connection between electricity and magnetism, but no one else really understood how to make the deep connections or to put things into a single theory or set of equations. This is what Maxwell figured out, and to this day the four equations are all that are needed to understand everything about electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetism.
We will use portions of a video to see what the equations are, and how they ultimately led Maxwell to predict electromagnetic waves and the speed of light, long before this was confirmed in the lab...just by using some MV calculus.
The other thing we will try are breakout rooms in Zoom. We will have a chance to meet up with others in the session and talk through a few questions about EM induction.
I know trying to do EM induction, which is one of the trickier topics in physics, through distance learning is not easy. But know HOW PROUD OF YOU I am, for your efforts, the way you've adapted, and how you've remained (hopefully) pretty positive despite the circumstances!! You are amazing, wonderful young women and men, and be sure to stay that way forever!! Go ahead and CELEBRATE a bit!
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