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Maxwell represented disturbances of regulated machinery with differential equations and connected decaying or growing disturbances to the real parts of characteristic roots. A governor can overcorrect and produce increasing oscillations. Examining the roots turns that practical problem into a dynamical calculation, contributing a different piece of science from Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.
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The inspected opening treats disturbances near steady motion. Maxwell explicitly did not give general stability conditions beyond the third-order cases considered; this is not a universal nonlinear stability criterion.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Maxwell: dynamical stability of mechanical governors
Maxwell represented disturbances of regulated machinery with differential equations and connected decaying or growing disturbances to the real parts of characteristic roots.
A governor can overcorrect and produce increasing oscillations. Examining the roots turns that practical problem into a dynamical calculation, contributing a different piece of science from Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.
Scientific scope
The inspected opening treats disturbances near steady motion. Maxwell explicitly did not give general stability conditions beyond the third-order cases considered; this is not a universal nonlinear stability criterion.
People and systems
James Clerk Maxwell