Re: If at first you don't succeed!
From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 03/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:03:25 GMT
Tom Potter wrote:
> "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
> news:Cci%d.89175$Ze3.71433@attbi_s51...
>
>>Tom Potter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>1. In the middle of the 18th century,
>>>James Clerk Maxwell established the standard
>>>to which ALL physics models must conform.
>>>This standard is now called Dimensional Analysis.
>>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
>>
>> Care to show us Potter the connection between "James Clerk Maxwell"
>> and "Dimensional Analysis"?
>
>
> I suggest that you read Maxwell's books,
> "Matter and Motion"
> and
> "A treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"
>
> As can be seen, Maxwell's books start out
> stating that a measurement consists of two parts, etc.
>
> He then goes on to talk about time, space and mass
> as fundamental properties,
>
> And then goes on to show
> how other properties can be defined in terms of this,
>
> An then goes on to show
> how the new properties he is introducing fit into the pattern.
> ( Electric field, magnetic field, displacement current, etc.)
>
> Read Maxwell's books.
> They're much better than the Wikipedia web site.
>
In other words, nothing to do with Dimensional Analysis.
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