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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

The life of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - The Useless Waves


Wave Equation

Proving the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by Maxwell.

\[ \nabla^2 \mathbf{E} = \mu_0 \varepsilon_0 \frac{\partial^2 \mathbf{E}}{\partial t^2} \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hertz_Heinrich/

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