Abstract: Publisher SummaryRelativity and quantum physics are crucial to the foundations of how electromagnetic fields operate. Relativity is at work behind the scenes of many electromagnetic phenomena and quantum physics is crucial for understanding lasers, the basis of fiber optics. This chapter highlights the important aspects of relativity and explores the relation of relativity to electromagnetics. Relativity has repugnant assumptions but leads to a more simple and symmetric physics when compared to classical theory. It is also free of strange paradoxes, and can be understood conceptually. Quantum physics is a theory that has developed over time through a chain of historical theoretical and experimental events. A common connection between the two theories is that they both developed from questions concerning electromagnetic radiation. Relativity developed from questions about the speed of light, and quantum physics developed from questions about thermal radiation..
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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