Maxwell’s Equations Explained: Supplement to the History of Maxwell’s Equation

Introduction

In this video I am going to explain the dot product, the cross product, the divergence, the curl and how it all works for Maxwell’s equations AND what Maxwell’s equations mean about magnets and light and a tiny bit about why that is important. But before I do that, I want to take a moment to say why I am making this video.

See, as many of you know, I am a science historian who makes videos and writes books where I use the personal stories of the scientists to teach the science...