If Maxwell's equations were a piece of hardware, most of us would be eager to see what's inside the box. But you won't find the literary equivalent of a physical teardown because the subject is ...

If you hang around with physics people long enough, some­one eventually will bring up Maxwell's equations. Maybe as part of a joke, or on a T-shirt or a tattoo. But they'll be somewhere. So even if ...

I know an engineer who never bothered to memorize Ohm’s law. She says that when she needs it, she can always derive it from Maxwell’s equations. On the other hand, despite the fact that I aced my ...