The Electromagnetic Hymn Of The Republic

God noticed that the universe was starting to run down,
So He turned to James Clark Maxwell with a highly puzzled frown
He- said Jim, Help! For if you don't, then terrible 'twill be
As the universe fades to max'mum entropy!

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Glory, Glory, dear old Maxwell
Glory, Glory, dear old Maxwell
Glory, Glory, dear old Maxwell,
His light goes shining on!

So Maxwell said to God, "I thought that You were really bright!"
When I set the system up I fixed the velocity of light
For- c equals the inverse root of epsilon mu naught
And light will still shine though theology will not!

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Jim said to God, "Now don't you see displacement can't diverge,
Un-less there is some charge of course and that must be the word
For H is solenoidal for its curves must all be closed
And light goes shining on!"

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If you take the time derivative of mag induction B,
If you're lucky you will get the negative of curl of E.
Del cross H gives current density plus partial D dt
And light goes shining on!

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So he solved reflection problems at a dielectric boundary
And refraction that had theory in a big corpuscle quandary
He said the normal parts of B and D must smoothly change
And tangential parts of E and H must surely be the same.

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So today all sophomore students take course 8.03 here
They all know that 8.03 surely takes it in the ear!
So those blasted MEQs, they still command a bit of fear
As Frisch goes talking on and on and on and on ..

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