These observations, first made by Philipp Lenard in 1902, gave a startling twist to the story! The mystery was finally resolved by Albert Einstein in 1905, while working as a clerk in the Swiss Patent ...

Albert Einstein shook up physics by proposing that light wasn’t just a wave, but it could also behave like a collection of ...

THIS second part of Dr. Boltzmann's account of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory is written from a somewhat different point of view from the first part. The first part presents the theory from the ...

It led to the theory of the dual nature ... understand that solar cells as well as electromagnetic generators work on the same physical law. A special focus of the article is on the fact that the ...

Quasistatic fields and displacement currents. Maxwell's equations, special relativity, wave-guides, scattering, radiation from accelerated charges, propagation in material media and plasmas, ...

As in bodies at rest, electromagnetic or magneto-electric ... The most obvious extension of Maxwell's theory to the case of moving bodies was incompatible with the results of experiment.

In 1830, English physicist Michael Faraday confirmed Oersted's theory, and established the principle of electromagnetic induction. In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell, an experimental physics ...