A1 - electromagnetism
- Gauss' law:
- in a material, there are free and bound charges, so:
where,
- this module considers only free space, ie. no bound charges, so:
- Ampere's law:
- in free space:
- magnetic monopoles have not been observed, so:
- considering charge conservation, the continuity equation:
- if
- note that this is the static condition
- instead say:
- such that:
is therefore the displacement current
- finally, considering electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law:
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and have only fields, but and have both fields and source terms -
Maxwell's equations in free space: