electromagnetism

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Introduction
Fundamentals
- Coulomb’s law
- Principle of charge conservation
- Electric fields and forces
- Magnetic fields and forces
- Interaction of a magnetic field with a charge
Effects of varying magnetic fields
- Faraday’s law of induction
- Self-inductance and mutual inductance
Effects of varying electric fields
Historical survey
- Early observations and applications
- Emergence of the modern sciences of electricity and magnetism
  - Pioneering efforts
  - Invention of the Leyden jar
  - Formulation of the quantitative laws of electrostatics and magnetostatics
- Foundations of electrochemistry and electrodynamics
  - Development of the battery
  - Experimental and theoretical studies of electromagnetic phenomena
    - Faraday’s discovery of electric induction
    - Maxwell’s unified theory of electromagnetism
  - Discovery of the electron and its ramifications
  - Special theory of relativity
- Development of electromagnetic technology

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James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish mathematician and physicist

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician

J.J. Thomson

J.J. Thomson

British physicist

André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère

French physicist

Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.

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French mathematician

Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry

American physicist

George Green

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Steven Weinberg

American physicist

Hans Georg Dehmelt

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Jean-Baptiste Biot

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