Maxwell’s Equations describe how electric charges and electric currents create electric and magnetic fields, and how an electric field can generate a magnetic field. Maxwell’s Equations, which express experimental laws and state four equations: 1) electric field diverges from electric charge – the Coulomb force; 2) there are no isolated magnetic poles, but the Coulomb force acts between the poles of a magnet; 3) electric fields are produced by changing magnetic fields- the Faraday’s law of induction; 4) circulating magnetic fields are produced by changing electric fields and by electric currents.
Reference Definition by Wikipedia: Maxwell’s Equations are a set of partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electrodynamics, classical optics, and electric circuits. The equations are named after the physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who, in 1861 and 1862, published an early form of the equations that included the Lorentz force law.
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