II. Short Answer Questions · Q3
Q.Write down the integral form of modified Ampere's circuital law.
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Step 1. The original Ampere's circuital law, , only accounts for conduction current and fails for surfaces passing through the gap of a charging capacitor.
Step 2. Maxwell added the displacement current term to fix this, giving the modified law .
Step 3. Written out explicitly, this is , where is the conduction current and is the electric flux through the surface bounded by the loop.
Step 4. This equation, called the Ampere-Maxwell law, is the fourth of Maxwell's four equations, and reduces to the original Ampere's law whenever the electric flux is constant (steady current).
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