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  2. Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    Maxwell's modification of Ampère's circuital law is important because the laws of Ampère and Gauss must otherwise be adjusted for static fields. [ 4 ] [ clarification needed ] As a consequence, it predicts that a rotating magnetic field occurs with a changing electric field.

  3. History of Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    The four equations we use today appeared separately in Maxwell's 1861 paper, On Physical Lines of Force: Equation (56) in Maxwell's 1861 paper is Gauss's law for magnetism, ∇ • B = 0. Equation (112) is Ampère's circuital law, with Maxwell's addition of displacement current.

  4. Maxwell relations - Wikipedia

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    Proof of Maxwell's relations: There are four real variables ( T , S , p , V ) {\displaystyle (T,S,p,V)} , restricted on the 2-dimensional surface of possible thermodynamic states. This allows us to use the previous two propositions.

  5. James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    Oliver Heaviside reduced the complexity of Maxwell's theory down to four partial differential equations, [121] known now collectively as Maxwell's Laws or Maxwell's equations. Although potentials became much less popular in the nineteenth century, [122] the use of scalar and vector potentials is now standard in the solution of Maxwell's ...

  6. Covariant formulation of classical electromagnetism - Wikipedia

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    The covariant formulation of classical electromagnetism refers to ways of writing the laws of classical electromagnetism (in particular, Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force) in a form that is manifestly invariant under Lorentz transformations, in the formalism of special relativity using rectilinear inertial coordinate systems. These ...

  7. A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field - Wikipedia

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    Another of Heaviside's four equations is an amalgamation of Maxwell's law of total currents (equation "A") with Ampère's circuital law (equation "C"). This amalgamation, which Maxwell himself had actually originally made at equation (112) in "On Physical Lines of Force", is the one that modifies Ampère's Circuital Law to include Maxwell's ...

  8. Gauss's law for magnetism - Wikipedia

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    In physics, Gauss's law for magnetism is one of the four Maxwell's equations that underlie classical electrodynamics. It states that the magnetic field B has divergence equal to zero, [1] in other words, that it is a solenoidal vector field. It is equivalent to the statement that magnetic monopoles do not exist. [2]

  9. Electromagnetic induction - Wikipedia

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    Heaviside's version (see Maxwell–Faraday equation below) is the form recognized today in the group of equations known as Maxwell's equations. In 1834 Heinrich Lenz formulated the law named after him to describe the "flux through the circuit". Lenz's law gives the direction of the induced emf and current resulting from electromagnetic induction.