October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
7h 54m
English
Consider for the moment a field in a linear isotropic medium produced solely by electric currents J and their associated charges ρ. Maxwell’s equations (1.61) apply, with M and ρm equal to zero. This set of equations can be inconvenient to deal with directly, due to its complexity (the curl equations alone form a system of 6 coupled scalar equations in 6 scalar unknowns). For this reason, vector and scalar potentials are often used to simplify the solution procedure. In this section we derive the Lorenz1 potentials.
Note first Gauss’ law for the magnetic field ∇ · B = 0. Poincaré’s Lemma 3 (Appendix D) states that a vector ...
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