{"id":2176,"date":"2023-07-30T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/30\/understanding-maxwells-equations-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"understanding-maxwells-equations-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/30\/understanding-maxwells-equations-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Maxwell&#8217;s Equations (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGia0ngFq0o?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>And you should also look at the accompanying web site: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwells-equations.com\/m\/index.php#maxwells\"><b>https:\/\/www.maxwells-equations.com\/m\/index.php#maxwells<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Writing about the equations, the author notes, &#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">They are formidable to look at &#8211; so complicated that most electrical engineers and physicists don&#8217;t even really know what they mean. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">This leads to the reason for this website &#8211; an intuitive tutorial of Maxwell&#8217;s Equations. I will avoid if at all possible the mathematical difficulties that arise, and instead describe what the equations mean. And don&#8217;t be afraid &#8211; the math is so complicated that those who do understand complex vector calculus still cannot apply Maxwell&#8217;s Equations in anything but the simplest scenarios. For this reason, intuitive knowledge of Maxwell&#8217;s Equations is far superior than mathematical manipulation-based knowledge. To understand the world, you must understand what equations mean, and not just know mathematical constructs. I believe the accepted methods of teaching electromagnetics and Maxwell&#8217;s Equations do not produce understanding. And with that, let&#8217;s say something about these equations.<\/span>&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Armand WA1UQO for sending me the wonderful book about Faraday and Maxwell that put me &#8212; once again &#8212; on the path toward a deeper understanding of their work.<\/b> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image_1753066303.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"621\" data-original-width=\"415\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image_1753066303.png\" width=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faraday-Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-Revolutionized\/dp\/1633886077\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZRPDYCCN9CGA&#038;keywords=Faraday+and+Maxwell+Forbes+Mahon&#038;qid=1690716355&#038;s=books&#038;sprefix=faraday+and+maxwell+forbes+mahon%2Cstripbooks%2C55&#038;sr=1-1\"><b>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faraday-Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-Revolutionized\/dp\/1633886077\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZRPDYCCN9CGA&#038;keywords=Faraday+and+Maxwell+Forbes+Mahon&#038;qid=1690716355&#038;s=books&#038;sprefix=faraday+and+maxwell+forbes+mahon%2Cstripbooks%2C55&#038;sr=1-1<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Thanks also to Michael Rainey AA1TJ. Several years ago he commented that he too wanted to get a better understanding of these equations. <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you should also look at the accompanying web site: https:\/\/www.maxwells-equations.com\/m\/index.php#maxwells Writing about the equations, the author notes, &#8220;They are formidable to look at &#8211; so complicated that most electrical engineers and physicists don&#8217;t even really know what they mean. This leads to the reason for this website &#8211; an intuitive tutorial of Maxwell&#8217;s Equations. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/30\/understanding-maxwells-equations-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Understanding Maxwell&#8217;s Equations (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,337,321,282,274,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-em-waves","category-faraday-michael","category-hamel-armand","category-mathematics","category-maxwell-james-clerk","category-rainey-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}