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Re: [Phys-L] The status of Kirchhoff''s laws




On 2013, Feb 28, , at 20:43, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:


OTOH there is a genuine dilemma here, because of the risk of
negative transference from statics to dynamics. A lot of things
that are true for statics are just not true for dynamics, and
will have to be unlearned.


Ideally one would teach Maxwell and then point out in the static case certain terms drop out. Of course, this method is likely impossible?

Hence the spiral approach with caveats.

bc remembers the Baez text.