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  2. Ampère's force law - Wikipedia

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    The best-known and simplest example of Ampère's force law, which underlaid (before 20 May 2019 [1]) the definition of the ampere, the SI unit of electric current, states that the magnetic force per unit length between two straight parallel conductors is. where is the magnetic force constant from the Biot–Savart law, is the total force on ...

  3. Ampère's circuital law - Wikipedia

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    Ampère's original circuital law. In 1820 Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered that an electric current creates a magnetic field around it, when he noticed that the needle of a compass next to a wire carrying current turned so that the needle was perpendicular to the wire. [6][7] He investigated and discovered the rules which ...

  4. Method of image charges - Wikipedia

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    Diagram illustrating the image method for Laplace's equation for a sphere of radius R. The green point is a charge q lying inside the sphere at a distance p from the origin, the red point is the image of that point, having charge −qR/p, lying outside the sphere at a distance of R 2 /p from the origin. The potential produced by the two charges ...

  5. Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits. The equations provide a mathematical model for electric, optical, and radio technologies, such ...

  6. Electromagnet - Wikipedia

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    For units using inches, pounds force, and amperes with long, slender, solenoids, the value of C is around 0.009 to 0.010 psi (maximum pull pounds per square inch of plunger cross-sectional area). [9] For example, a 12-inch long coil ( ℓ = 12 in ) with a long plunger of 1-square inch cross section ( A = 1 in 2 ) and 11,200 ampere-turns ( N I ...

  7. Right-hand rule - Wikipedia

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    Right-hand rule. In mathematics and physics, the right-hand rule is a convention and a mnemonic, utilized to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space and to determine the direction of the cross product of two vectors, as well as to establish the direction of the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field.

  8. History of Maxwell's equations - Wikipedia

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    The extension of the above considerations confirms that where B is to H, and where J is to ρ, then it necessarily follows from Gauss's law and from the equation of continuity of charge that E is to D i.e. B parallels with E, whereas H parallels with D. Engineering diagram of Boltzmann's Bicykel. Boltzmann's Bicykel model of electromagnetic ...

  9. Displacement current - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In electromagnetism, displacement current density is the quantity ∂D/∂t appearing in Maxwell's equations that is defined in terms of the rate of change of D, the electric displacement field. Displacement current density has the same units as electric current density, and it is a source of the magnetic field just as actual current is.