Austen Lamacraft @austen.uk · Mar 12

Perhaps the first of an occasional series of persistently wrong ideas in Physics... I was reminded yesterday of Maxwell's completely flawed derviation of his distribution, showing that it's more important to be original than right. Can you see what's wrong? www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Douglas Natelson · Mar 12

Well, he’s pretty sloppy with notation, for sure.