1962

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.

Dan Q. Posin; WTTW, Chicago

National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Educational

Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 ; Electromagnetism

National Educational Television

IUL Moving Image Archive

English

1 Film (0:29:07); 16mm

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