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a
Quantitative (or
Supplementary
) triad
Electricity
Maxwell's equations
Electromagnetism
Magnetism
b
Qualitative (or
Complementary
) Category
Information
Maxwell's angels
Information-Energy
(or
Gnergy
)
(or
Molecular Machines
)
Energy
Fig. 11.39 Two kinds of “triadic” categories suggested by
Maxwell's equations
and
molecular
machines
(or Maxwell's angels). The concepts of
supplementarity
and
complementarity
are
defined in Sect. 2.3.1
nodes rather than the usual two and (2) there may be two kinds of triadic categories
- the
quantitative
(or
supplementary
) category where the mapping can be expressed
mathematically (e.g., Maxwell's equations), and the
qualitative
(or
complementary
)
category where the mapping cannot be expressed in terms of mathematical
equations. These two kinds of mappings are depicted with two different symbols
in Fig.
11.39
(see Table 2.6 for related symbols).
