James+Clerk+Maxwell

=James Clerk Maxwell=

"Cynics are made, not born."
James Clerk Maxwell lived from the year 1831 to 1879. He was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most significant contribution to physics was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory. He also made fundamental contributions to the field of mathematics, astronomy and engineering.



Even Albert Einstein, credited James Clerk Maxwell for the discovery of his special Theory of Relativity by saying: //"The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field." //

Maxwell's first contribution to physics was a study of the planet Saturn's rings. He showed that stability could be achieved only if the rings consisted of numerous small solid particles. He also investigated molecules of gases in rapid motion, forming the Maxwell-Boltzmann **Kinetic Theory of Gases**.

This Kinetic Theory of Gases basically says that temperatures and heat involved only molecular movement, molecules at high temperature have only a high probability of moving toward those at low temperature.

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Maxwell's most significant contribution to physics was his extension and a mathematical formula of Michael Faraday's theories of electricity and magnetic lines of force. From 1864 and 1873, Maxwell discovered that a few mathematical equations could express the behavior of electric and magnetic fields and the way they were related. An oscillating electric charge produces an electromagnetic field. These are known as the **four Maxwell's equations.**

These equations are so where is the divergence,  is the curl, is the constant pi, **E** is the electric field, **B** is the magnetic field,  is the charge density, //c// is the speed of light and **J** is the vector current density.
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