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Introduction

For describing the macroscopic electromagnetic world and with it the new materials, and ideas
about electromagnetics, it is necessary to understand Maxwells Ecuations, these four relations are
the result of the analysis of many experiments, made by Michael Faraday, Andr-Marie Ampere,
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss and other scientists who were interested in electric and magnetic
phenomena. Was James Clerk Maxwell who bound all of this knowledge into 13 quaternions, and
after Hertz, Gibbs y Heaviside [1] reduced them into four simple relations:

Gauss Law:

Establishes that the sum of the electrical density around a closed area is equal to the net electrical
charge this contains.

Amperes Law

Establishes that the sum of the magnetic field around a closed path is equal to the net electrical
current this surround.

Faradays Law

Establishes that the voltage trough a path in a conductor, equals to the time variation of the
magnetic flux.

Gauss Law (Magnetic version):

Simply establishes the no existence of magnetic monopoles.

Bibliography
[1] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell

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