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Growing waves

MAR 01, 1951
J. R. Pierce

The talented or lucky physicist who discovers broad new laws escapes a good deal of the grief that comes to him who tries to work out their consequences. Certainly, Maxwell’s equations and the equations of motion, relativistic or nonrelativistic, are simpler and more memorable than the organized interaction of clouds of charged particles with electromagnetic fields.

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J. R. Pierce. Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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