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Magnetostatics of Current-Carrying wire
A question has been nagging at me about Faraday's Law as related to a wire with a constant current:
If you have a circular loop of wire with some small resistivity, connected to a battery so that it ...
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Do Maxwell's Equations overdetermine the electric and magnetic fields?
Maxwell's equations specify two vector and two scalar (differential) equations. That implies 8 components in the equations. But between vector fields $\vec{E}=(E_x,E_y,E_z)$ and ...
