a physicist hello everyone this is part
of mishra i welcome you to the cadence
of physics physics shastra
in this episode of life of luminaries
we are going to cover one of the
prominent figures of physics
michael faraday for those of you who
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on to the correct video today i'll show
you that how
a person living in extreme poverty
coming from
most humble backgrounds created history
only with his desire and passion and of
course his mind
so let's delve before peeping inside his
great life
let me share a story with all of you
roll back to
2005 when i was in class 4 at that time
in my school wall i was newly admitted
in that school
and in my school wall it was written
aspire to become
faraday that time i knew nothing about
michael faraday gradually
from the library books and asking my
teachers etc
i came to know about the grandeur of
faraday and since then
i'm a huge huge fan of michael faraday
that how
someone only with the help of
experiments can discover
laws of nature and physics in specific
that can change the course of humanity
forever
michael faraday was born on september 22
1971
in london his family was not well off as
i said earlier
started with very humble beginnings
at the age of 14 he became an apprentice
to
george ricardo a local book binder
and a bookseller now this is very
important he was working in a book
binding shop
and what happened was that he
read every book which crossed his eyes
he read everything which he had to deal
with
barring any subject restriction and in
that
he grew to a very large extent and
that's why it is said that sometimes
destiny plays some kind of things which
later proved
to be blessing in this guide he read the
book by dr
isaac watts the improvement of the mind
which influenced him throughout his life
he was particularly inspired by the book
conversations on chemistry
by jane marsett in 1812
at the age of 20 he attended lectures by
eminent english chemist sir humphrey
davey
now i must tell you that in those days
scientists
and people dealing with science used to
be treated
as celebrity figures now that was a
dream
of dr kalam as well that the day in
india
people having the pursuit of science
will be dealt like celebrities that day
we will grow as a superpower
so all those kids watching out there
aspire to become faraday
1813 was the year when sir humphrey davy
called faraday
because davey damaged his eyesight is
one of
the experiments which he was doing
faraday married
sarah bernard in the year 1821
and in june 1832 the university of
oxford granted him
civil law degree he was offered
knighthood but he turned down
that knighthood on religious grounds he
was elected the fellow of royal society
in 1824
a lot of things he was given as honorary
titles
in his life what we can learn from his
life is that
he had no formal education instead of
that due to his passion due to his favor
for the subject
he experimented and found out the causes
there was a very famous incident
when uh faraday was called to give a
lecture to
uh an audience and at that time
electromagnetic forces were not into
existence people used to study mata
light and all those things separately
there was a famous experiment which you
must have
read about in school a wire and a
compass
if you pass electricity to the wire then
the compass will show some deflection
hence christian arrested found that
experiment or found that phenomena to be
uh more true so what faraday said
faraday said that i feel
this was his statement and i quote i
feel that there are some
invisible forces coming out of this
electric wire and
there was a colleague of sir humphrey
devi he said
that my dear boy in cambridge
forces move inside the wire they do not
come
outside the wire and that was the very
famous incidence
which i needed to quote in order to make
you understand that mathematics
and physics are different they are not
always
related okay so don't worry if you are
not that good in mathematics if you can
think in terms of
physical experiments you can also create
magic anyway that's a different part we
will discuss
that in a later video after that what
happened saturday had
a very strong feeling that light is an
electromagnetic wave
throughout his life he carried on
experiments to prove that
light is an electromagnetic wave before
that he already carried
out those experiments which led to
the knowledge of electromagnetic
induction the generator the
ceiling fan and many other devices work
on electromagnetic induction
that is basically the interplay of
electricity and magnetism
electricity and magnetism in earlier
days
used to be separately studied but after
the advent of faraday
he said that they are not distinct they
are interchangeable and they interact
at a very high speed and that speed
is the speed of light so faraday did not
have that mathematical fluency
prove his points and then that's why
at the age of 80 he was quite depressed
and
hence he had some nervous breakdown as
well
then came james clerk maxwell another
dignitary which
we will cover in some other video he
proved faraday correct with his famous
equations
which are known as maxwell's equations
of electrodynamics
and that changed everything and all the
physics we know
right now if we remove faraday from that
then physics will be null and void to a
very great extent
let's see some of the points that why
should we respect faraday
he unified electricity and magnetism as
i told you
the greatest experimental physicists of
all time his experiment
of a moving wire inside a magnetic field
is still considered as the greatest
experiment
of all times the experiment of the
century
he predicted light to be an
electromagnetic wave and that
itself is remarkable as i told earlier
michael faraday unfortunately left all
of us on august 25th
1867 and he also has a memorial
near sir isaac newton's storm and he has
left a legacy
for all of us to be proud of and be
thankful to him
because of giving so many things to us
and so many things for the benefit of
humanity
on the final note i would like to say
that self-education is very important
faraday taught us that if you can
educate yourself nothing can be greater
than that
and nowadays when internet is at a boom
we
all of us have that opportunity to
educate ourselves to the maximum extent
possible
it's my humble request to all of you
please
please do not participate in any kind of
trash on the internet
rather try to uplift your values try to
educate yourself with new set of skills
so that you can become world citizen
someday
other than that what else he taught us
he taught us
that desire is omnipotent if your desire
is very powerful if you are passionate
about something it can take you places
so all the future physicists who dream
of
a degree in physics or who dream of
getting something new in this world
with the pursuit of physics to all of
them
i wish you all the best please please
remember these kind of people with all
your heart
because because of people like faraday
only
we are able to use heavy machines
with such ease on the final note if you
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