Author(s)

A. C. Wimal Lalith De Alwis

School of Four Incalculables and Tathgatha’s Society, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Solutions to the differential equation in Smith’s Prize Examination taken by Maxwell are discussed. It was a competitive examination using which skill full students were identified and James Clerk Maxwell was one of them. He later formulated the theory of Electromagnetism and predicted the light speed & its value was subsequently confirmed by experiments. Light travel in a direction perpendicular to oscillating electric and magnetic field through a vacuum from sun. In the same exam paper, Maxwell answered the question related to Stokes Theorem of vector calculus which was used in the formalism of Electromagnetic theory.

Solution, Differential Equation, Smith’s Prize Exam, Stokes, Maxwell, Euler

De Alwis, A. (2017) Solution to Stokes-Maxwell-Euler Differential Equation. Applied Mathematics, 8, 410-416. doi: 10.4236/am.2017.83033.