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Re: Magnetic Monopoles

Tina asks:
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From: Tina Fanetti [mailto:FanettT@QUEST.WITCC.CC.IA.US]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:14 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Magnetic Monopoles


If a magnetic monopole were found, would Faraday's Law of induction
need to be adjusted?

Tina

Short answer, yes. Look at the modification of Ampere's law that Maxwell
introduced, i.e. he included the time-varying electric flux as a source of
magnetic fields along with current. Faraday includes the time varying
magnetic flux as a source of electric fields, so one would need to introduce
"magnetic currents" into Faraday's law to make it symmetric with the
extended version of Ampere's law .

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