Re: If at first you don't succeed!

tdp1001@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
mountain man wrote:

http://www.mountainman.com.au/maxwell1.html




Good summary-review Tom Potter, thanks.
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First, it introduced "Dimensional Analysis" which is the
standard against which ALL physics models must be tested.

Equations are maths.
Units are politics.
Dimensional Analysis is physics.
( If a model doesn't fit Maxwell's Dimensions, it is not correct.)

Secondly, Maxwell established the framework for Quantum
Mechanics when he showed that statistics, rather than
two-body math, is required to model multi-body systems.

Thirdly, Maxwell established the framework for modern
atomic theory by postulating dimensionless points, and a
ssembling the points into atoms, molecules, and larger
structures, while leaving room for finer complex assembles
of points such as quarks and neutrinos.

Fourthly, Maxwell laid the ground work for the Bose-Einstein
and Fermi-Dirac distributions, which are slight modifications
of Maxwell's distribution to account for the separation of
matter into two classes, bosons and fermions.

Fifthly, Einstein's much touted paper on Brownian movement
is a variation of Maxwell's more comprehensive treatment of the
velocity distribution of particles.



Thanks a million for the nice compliment!

As an reader/admirer of your outstanding web site,
I must mention that it is one of the best
physics sites on the web.


  Some of it even contradicts *** at your web site Potter.


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