PRIDE CHEKERA_HOW BEAUTY IS PHYSICS_SHORT ESSAY (2021 EBOOK)

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first dynamo. He went on to discover that, a magnetic field will
rotate the plane of polarization of light. Three laws are known
tagged with his name:


(1) a changing magnetic field induces an electromagnetic
force in a conductor;
(2) the electromagnetic force is proportional to the rate of
change of the field;
(3) the direction of the induced electromagnetic force
depends on the orientation of the field.
These laws became the fundamental basis of understanding of
the nature of light by another great physicist, James Clerk
Maxwell (1831-1879). Faraday was not formally educated
thus he was not good with mathematics. What he left for us to
feed on are diagrams of field lines of which are basis of most,
if not all, of physics theories. Right now hydroelectric
stations, thermal stations, are all driven by the existence of
these fields, and thus the world is adorned with lights at night.

Let there be light


Maxwell, a Scottish physicist, enhanced our way of
understanding electromagnetic waves. Light was something
which people think of, distracted by its nature, until in 1873,
Maxwell brought together electricity, magnetism and light in

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