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Ampere’s Law

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Ampere’s law relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the surface of the loop.  It was first discovered  by André-Marie Ampère in 1826, later re-derived by Maxwell using hydrodynamics in 1861. Now it is one of the Maxwell equations, which is the […]