Magnetic, Electric Fields & EM Waves: History and Physics

Michael Faraday created the idea of magnetic fields in 1831, and electric fields in 1837 and that light was a wave of these fields in 1846.

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Time Stamps
0:00 Why I made this video
2:41 How Faraday Discovered Magneto-Electric Induction
5:33 The First Description of Magnetic Fields
8:57 How Faraday Discovered the Faraday Cage
9:50 The First Description of Electric Fields & Dielectrics
14:34 Short History of Polarization up to 1824
16:37 Faraday experimentally discovers the relation between light & EM
17:48 Light as an EM Wave
21:45 Overview of Faraday's Accomplishments
23:05 Maxwell's Equations
25:59 NEWS about "The Lightning Tamers"


Video on Faraday's 1831 experiment (very good BTW):
   • Prelude To Power: 1931 Michael Farada...  

The demonstration of the polarizing sunglasses is from:
   • Polarized sunglass demonstration