Electrodynamics MOC

Magnetostatics MOC

Magnetostatics is a special case of electrodynamics where the Magnetic field is time-independent and there is no electric field, i.e.

Magnetostatics was established empicircally by the Biot-Savart Law, but of course it is fully encoded in Maxwell’s equations whose differential form become

whence it immediately follows that and the charge continuity equation becomes

Since the Poynting vector and thus momentum density vanishes, no energy nor momentum is transported by the fields and no momentum is stored by the fields.

Potential

A magnetostatic system is completely described by its magnetic potential

where the Coulomb gauge further reduces the above to Poisson’s equation

so for localized sources the solution is

for volume, surface, and line current density respectively. See also Multipole expansion of the magnetostatic potential.

Further properties

Applications


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