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Kirchhoff's current law is thought to describe the translational movement of charged particles through resistors. But Kirchhoff's law is widely used to describe movements of current through resistors in high speed devices. Current at high…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Robert S. Eisenberg

It is certain that electrical properties-whether slow (sec) or fast (nsec), even optical (fsec)-are described by Maxwell's equations, and there are terms that depend on the rate of change of the electric and magnetic fields. In particular,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 David K. Ferry , Xavier Oriols , Robert Eisenberg

Our digital technology depends on mathematics to compute current flow and design its devices. Mathematics describes current flow by an idealization, Kirchhoff's current law. All the electrons that flow into a node flow out. This…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Bob Eisenberg , Nathan Gold , Zilong Song , Huaxiong Huang

A dielectric dilemma faces scientists because Maxwell's equations are poor approximations as usually written, with a single dielectric constant. Maxwell's equations are then not accurate enough to be useful in many applications involving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Robert Eisenberg

In 1857, Kirchhoff published two seminal papers on the motion of electricity in wires. In that work, he was the first to derive what we now call the telegrapher`s equations, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic signals along a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xavier Oriols , Robert Eisenberg , David K. Ferry

Electricity plays a special role in our lives and life. Equations of electron dynamics are nearly exact and apply from nuclear particles to stars. These Maxwell equations include a special term the displacement current (of vacuum).…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Bob Eisenberg , Xavier Oriols , David Ferry

Maxwell defined a true or total current in a way not widely used today. He said "... true electric current ... is not the same thing as the current of conduction but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must be taken into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Robert S. Eisenberg

The Ampere-Maxwell's law and the displacement current constitute one of the most difficult aspects of electromagnetic theory for students in introductory electromagnetics courses. Here we present a set of examples that go beyond the…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-01-30 Álvaro Suárez , Martín Monteiro , Arturo C. Martí

Continuous-time Markov chains have been successful in modelling systems across numerous fields, with currents being fundamental entities that describe the flows of energy, particles, individuals, chemical species, information, or other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Dal Cengio , Pedro E. Harunari , Vivien Lecomte , Matteo Polettini

The Displacement Current is a peculiar aspect of Maxwell's equation created by theoretical necessity only to be later validated through experimentation. We analyze the properties of the Displacement Current in the static condition of…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-07 Arvin Sharma

It is considered that the time derivative of the electric intensity in the Maxwell-Ampere law (displacement current) denotes that a change of electric field generates a magnetic field. This paper shows that there is no reason to think a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Slechta

Charges are everywhere because most atoms are charged. Chemical bonds are formed by electrons with their charge. Charges move and interact according to Maxwell's equations in space and in atoms where the equations of electrodynamics are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Bob Eisenberg

In contrast to the standard derivation of Kirchhoff's loop law, which invokes electric potential, we show, for the linear planar electric network in a stationary state at the fixed temperature,that loop law can be derived from the maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Zupanovic , D. Juretic , S. Botric

Though sufficient for local conservation of charge, we show that Maxwells displacement current is not necessary. An alternative to the Ampere Maxwell equation is exhibited and the alternative s electric and magnetic fields and scalar and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alan M. Wolsky

Displacement current is the last piece of the puzzle of electromagnetic theory. Its existence implies that electromagnetic disturbance can propagate at the speed of light and finally it led to the discovery of Hertzian waves. On the other…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Masao Kitano

We investigate quantum synchronization phenomena in electrical circuits that incorporate specifically designed nonconservative elements. A dissipative theory of classical and quantized electrical circuits is developed based on the Rayleigh…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Matteo Mariantoni , Noah Gorgichuk

This work explores the role of the displacement current in systems beyond capacitors, focusing on coaxial cables and resistors with alternating currents. Although its contribution, compared to that of the conduction current, is negligible…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-04-08 Alvaro Suarez , Arturo C. Marti , Martín Monteiro

After J. C. Maxwell brought forward the concept of displacement currents, H. R. Hertz and other scholars verified the existence of electromagnetic waves in experimental, and then confirmed indirectly the conceptive correctness of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Zi-Hua Weng , Jin-Pan Zhu , Jing-Yan He , Zhi-Min Chen , Huang-Ping Yan , Ying Weng

Recent progress has witnessed that various topological physics can be simulated by electric circuits under alternating current. However, it is still a nontrivial problem if it is possible to simulate the dynamics subject to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Motohiko Ezawa

Although standard quantum mechanics has some non-local features, the probability current of the Schr\"odinger equation is locally conserved, and this allows minimal electromagnetic coupling. For some important extensions of the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 G. Modanese
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