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2006-11-21 20:36:52 · 10 answers · asked by Friend 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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It was James Clark Maxwell who unified electricity and magnetism when he published his Field Theory of Electromagnetism. He showed that electric and magnetic fields travel through vacuum, in the form of waves, at a constant velocity of 3.0 × 10^8 m/s. He also proposed that light was a form of electromagnetic radiation.

The unification is demonstrated through his equations that relates the connection between electric fields and magnetic fields. In fact, solutions to his equations shows that light is a wave consisting of alternating electric and magnetic waves.

2006-11-21 21:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by PhysicsDude 7 · 4 0

The unification of the electromagnetic force was achieved by James Clark Maxwell.He build on earlier work by Faraday, Gauss and others to make a set of four equations, known as Maxwell's equations, that show the relationship between the electric force and the magnetic force.
Latter Einstein showed that the forces where more closely related than previously thought by showing that some of Maxwells laws are a consequnce of an inertial frame.

2006-11-21 21:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mark G 7 · 0 0

first of all they were always united. if you mean who proved they were the same thing it was Micheal Faraday, by using a magnetic feild to create electricity, if you mean figuring out the equations which relate the 2 it was Gauss with laws of electric and magnetic force, faraday's law of induction, and amphere's law. james clerk maxwells contribution was to organize these equations and put them in terms of the same varibles so the could be combined and derived with each other, as well as putting them in a more easily workable form and realizing their relation to light.

2006-11-22 01:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by Da Funk 5 · 0 0

James Clerk Maxell

2006-11-21 22:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by superlaminal 2 · 0 0

James Clerk Maxwell came up with the necessary equations and is usually given that credit

2006-11-21 21:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by AmigaJoe 3 · 0 0

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2016-11-26 00:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by adel 4 · 0 0

As stated earlier, evidently they were always unified

Perhaps you mean who discovered they were unified?

This is usually credited to Robert Maxwell, who manages to express this clever idea succintly in 4 equations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

Ampere had come close, but his equations needed modifications to be correct

2006-11-21 21:16:33 · answer #7 · answered by BT 1 · 0 0

Thats a tuff one considering they were unified long before man ever existed!

2006-11-21 20:41:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

i think Albert Einstein took the credit but was more likely a man called Nicola Tesla don't know how its spelt,put his name into google hes very interesting.

2006-11-21 20:48:20 · answer #9 · answered by karen. 4 · 0 1

Which ones?

2006-11-21 20:40:00 · answer #10 · answered by jonas_tripps_79 2 · 1 2

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