James Clerk Maxwell · Science
How four compact equations captured everything electric and magnetic in the universe - and how Maxwell’s addition of a single missing term, the displacement current, completed them, made them consistent, and forced the existence of electromagnetic waves.
You learned that Maxwell’s equations bundle all of electromagnetism into four laws: charges make electric fields, there are no magnetic charges, changing magnetic fields make electric fields, and currents (plus changing electric fields) make magnetic fields. Explain in your own words what the displacement current is,…
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