Faraday’s law states that a changing magnetic field induces an electric field.
Differential form
| where | |
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| electric field, measured in volts per meter | |
| position vector in three-dimensional space, typically expressed as and measured in meters | |
| curl operator which measures the rotation of a field in space and which when applied to is: measured in volts per meter squared , | |
| magnetic field (or magnetic flux density), measured in tesla | |
| time, measured in seconds |
Integral form
| where | |
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| closed loop (or contour) in three-dimensional space | |
| line integral around the closed path , measuring the total circulation of the electric field along the loop | |
| differential line element that represents an infinitesimally small segment along the loop | |
| surface whose boundary is the closed loop | |
| surface integral which sums the contribution of the field over the entire surface | |
| differential surface element, representing an infinitesimally small patch of the surface |