GEM Blog 30: Deriving the Maxwell Homogeneous Equations Using Quaternions

This is a dramatic reading of "Deriving the Maxwell Homogeneous Equations Using Quaternions" by the Stand-Up Physicist Doug Sweetser available at Science20.com. There are three ways to derive the no monopoles and Faraday's laws. The first is the vector identities, These are the easiest to do. The second approach uses differential geometry. A third method is to drop the Lorentz invariant dot product E.B into the Euler-Lagrange equation and see what happens. That is the calculation that is done in detail here.

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• GEM
• no
• magnetic
• monopoles
• Faraday's
• law
• Maxwell
• equations
• quaternions
• E.B
• Euler-Lagrange