PHYS208 4/3 Class

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Ampere's Law

The Electric Field		The Magnetic Field

Coulomb's Law:		Biot-Savart Law:

Gauss's Law:		For Magnetism:

What else?
Definition of Electric Potential:
If a closed path is specified for the line integral, so that point B is located at point A (where the potential must have the same value!):
Definition of Conservative Field:

The electric field is conservative; this allows a scalar potential to be defined.		It turns out that this integral is not zero! Thus the magnetic field is not conservative and no scalar magnetic potential may be defined.