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In this book, we describe the principles which govern electric and magnetic or electromagnetic fields and waves. This area of knowledge, frequently referred to as Electromagnetism, has a long history and is associated with many famous names among which Maxwell has a prominent place. Maxwell was the one who, in the nineteenth century, gave electromagnetism its final form, by fixing an inconsistency and summarizing the then voluminous material into few equations, through which everything else can be derived. These equations are called Maxwell,s equations. They form the foundation of the so-called Classical Electromagnetism. The first chapter of this book shall serve to introduce these equations
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Lehner, G. (2008). Maxwell’s Equations. In: Electromagnetic Field Theory for Engineers and Physicists. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76306-2_1
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