The nineteenth-century Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell made groundbreaking contributions to many areas of science including thermodynamics and colour vision ...

The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle when it interacts with matter. The theoretical work on light as an ...

His findings, taken for granted now, were fiercely contested during his life. Among the enduring legacies of nineteenth-century science, James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics have long ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves are generated under specific interactions. Light also bends around corners, ...

If you hang around with physics people long enough, some­one eventually will bring up Maxwell's equations. Maybe as part of a joke, or on a T-shirt or a tattoo. But they'll be somewhere. So even if ...

If Maxwell's equations were a piece of hardware, most of us would be eager to see what's inside the box. But you won't find the literary equivalent of a physical teardown because the subject is ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Apr., 1997), pp. 364-381 (18 pages) Consider a plane wave incident on a biperiodic diffractive structure. The diffraction problem may be modeled by ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Apr., 2002), pp. 1369-1382 (14 pages) Consider an inverse source problem for Maxwell's equations which arises in determining locations of epileptic ...