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Charles Bukowski by

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See: Video "Your Life is Your life by Charles Bukowski".

Video 1.

Something for the touts

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We have everything and we have nothing
And some men do it in churches
And some men do it by tearing butterflies in half
and some men do it in Palm Springs
Laying it into butter-blondes with Cadillac souls

This stuck to Ciro's mind for some reason. His brain just keeps completing the sentence, over and over:

Ciro Santilli does it in his computers and in his labs!

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Direct current by

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Extended Euclidean algorithm by

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Intelligence agency by

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English idiom by

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Oscilloscope by

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Video 1.

FNIRSI 1014D review by Kerry Wong (2022)

Source. One of the cheapest oscilloscopes available at the time.

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Maxwell's equations by

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Unified all previous electro-magnetism theories into one equation.

Explains the propagation of light as a wave, and matches the previously known relationship between the speed of light and electromagnetic constants.

The equations are a limit case of the more complete quantum electrodynamics, and unlike that more general theory account for the quantization of photon.

The equations are a system of partial differential equation.

The system consists of 6 unknown functions that map 4 variables: time t and the x, y and z positions in space, to a real number:

$E_{x} (t, x, y, z)$ , $E_{y} (t, x, y, z)$ , $E_{z} (t, x, y, z)$ : directions of the electric field $E : R^{4} \to R^{3}$
$B_{x} (t, x, y, z)$ , $B_{y} (t, x, y, z)$ , $B_{z} (t, x, y, z)$ : directions of the magnetic field $B : R^{4} \to R^{3}$

and two known input functions:

$ρ : R^{3} t o R$ : density of charges in space
$J : R^{3} \to R^{3}$ : current vector in space. This represents the strength of moving charges in space.

Due to the conservation of charge however, those input functions have the following restriction:

\frac{\partial ρ}{\partial t} + \nabla \cdot J = 0

(1)

Equation 1.

Charge conservation

Also consider the following cases:

if a spherical charge is moving, then this of course means that $ρ$ is changing with time, and at the same time that a current exists
in an ideal infinite cylindrical wire however, we can have constant $ρ$ in the wire, but there can still be a current because those charges are moving
Such infinite cylindrical wire is of course an ideal case, but one which is a good approximation to the huge number of electrons that travel in a actual wire.

The goal of finding

E

and

B

is that those fields allow us to determine the force that gets applied to a charge via the Equation "Lorentz force", and then to find the force we just need to integrate over the entire body.

Finally, now that we have defined all terms involved in the Maxwell equations, let's see the equations: