Can scientific laws be proved or are they experimentally derived?

wisvuze · Nov 22, 2009

Is there a 'proof' for this law? or is it experimentally derived..Thanks for reading

Integral · Nov 22, 2009

Experimental

MaxwellsDemon · Nov 22, 2009

Since its a law its based in experimental observations. It can be derived from Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic potentials and stuff if you want to consider those to be more "fundamental"...however historically those ideas are a result of the experimental observations like Coulomb's law.

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