James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
- Date
1962
- Summary
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As a boy, Maxwell was subject to the brutal teasing of his classmates. As an adult he met and solved several scientific problems that had been perplexing his contemporaries. He won a prize for demonstrating mathematically the nature of the rings around Saturn. But his most important achievement, which was at once the result of Faraday’s experiments and the beginning of much important new work by later scientists in physics and electricity, was his contribution to the study of electromagnetics and his predictions of the existence of electromagnetic waves. The processes and apparatuses he used are sketched in detail by Dr. Posin. The topic is a complicated one, but worth the attention of anyone who intends to pursue modern physics on his own.
- Contributors
Dan Q. Posin; WTTW, Chicago
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genre
Educational
- Subject
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 ; Electromagnetism
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:29:07); 16mm
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003272541; Other: GR00404495; MDPI Barcode: 40000003272541
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.