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Old March 10th 07, 07:07 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
John E. Davis John E. Davis is offline
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Default Gaussian statics law

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:38:08 GMT, Dave
wrote:
Gauss's law in Jackson's 'Classical Electrodynamics' 2nd edition, ppg
30-32,33 has NO 't'. nor does it in Ramo-Whinnery-VanDuzer 'Fields and
Waves in Communications Electronics' ppg 70-72(differential form),
75-76(integral form)


This is not surprising since that chapter in Jackson deals with
electrostatics. Look at section 1.5 on page 17. The section states:

The Maxwell equations are differential equations applying locally
at each point in space-time (x,t). By means of the divergence
theorem and Stoke's theorem they can be cast in integral form. [...
a few sentences later...] Then the divergence theorem applied to
the first and last [Maxwell] equations yields the integral
statements... The first is just Gauss's law...

--John