> "Bam! Here are Maxwell's differential equations. Now deduce things from that based on hand-wavey arguments". I don't mean having the students perform the experiments themselves, just describe what somebody else did and what the results were, and why that led people to believe that the laws of physics are as they are.
It's odd that you chose that example, because there is a rich history leading up to Maxwell doing his work, then Hertz verifying it, then Heaviside refactoring the notation.
Perhaps the deeper issue is that there are only so many lecture hours in a semester for adding these details, and you gotta start somewhere.
It's odd that you chose that example, because there is a rich history leading up to Maxwell doing his work, then Hertz verifying it, then Heaviside refactoring the notation.
Perhaps the deeper issue is that there are only so many lecture hours in a semester for adding these details, and you gotta start somewhere.