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Re: B versus H



Hi all-


On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

Away from home I can not check things in textbooks.
But in my mind the concept of "magnetic field" is
linked with "magnetic charges". They were first used
(by Gauss ?) to describe magnetic forces between bar
magnets, etc.

Magnetism due to electricity needed a separate symbol.
Later the simple model based on "poles" (= magnetic
charges of opposite signs) was eliminated...
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Not true. See Jackson (1975), p.252 (explaining Dirac).
Regards,
Jack