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- adjective Of or pertaining to James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish theoretical
physicist andmathematician who made important contributions toelectromagnetic theory. - noun A supporter of James Clerk Maxwell.
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Examples
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a spherically symmetric Maxwellian, which is analytic at the origin as the other example is not, and is not restricted to any quadrant of an n-dimensional space, but has a similar “ridge” of maximal values.
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Listen online or on 104. 4fm if you are in the magic land that can receive it via realactual Maxwellian radio waves.
Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 7 | FreakyTrigger 2009
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They move randomly, with a Maxwellian velocity distribution
Archive 2010-03-01 EliRabett 2010
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A universe without gravity waves would be about as nonsensical as one with Coulomb's law, Gauss' law, Faraday's law, but no Maxwellian EM waves.
Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record | Universe Today 2010
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These result in large changes in magnetic fields that evolve in time, which are associated with large Maxwellian displacement currents, or equivalently electric fields.
Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010
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They move randomly, with a Maxwellian velocity distribution
How big is that molecule in the window EliRabett 2010
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Holger Lyre (2004) extends Worrall's original example of the continuity between wave optics and electromagnetism by considering the relationship between Maxwellian electrodynamics and Quantum Electrodynamics.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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If a Maxwellian demon exists, however, then it would appear possible the Clausius inequality would not hold.
Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy Maroney, Owen 2009
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This amounts to a situation in which some scholars say go ahead and do that arty farty Maxwellian stuff but not in my backyard or vice versa.
Maxwell's Hammer 2008
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This is a wave equation similar to that for a Maxwellian electromagnetic wave with a source.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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