April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
15h 56m
English
While applying the Ampere’s circuital law to find magnetic field at a point outside a capacitor which connected to a time varying current, Maxwell noticed an inconsistency in Ampere’s law. He suggested the existence of an additional current and called it displacement current.

“Displacement current is a current which is produced due to rate of change of electric flux with respect to time”.
It is given by
According to Ampere’s circuital law, we have
where, current threading ...
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