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Displacement current — Maxwell's addition to Ampere's law

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Ampère's law ko fix karne ki ZAROORAT kyun thi?

Original Ampère's law kehti hai: ek closed loop ke around circulate karne wala magnetic field us kisi bhi surface se guzarne wale current ke barabar hota hai jo us loop se bounded ho.

Charging capacitor ka paradox. Socho ek wire ek parallel-plate capacitor ko charge kar rahi hai.

  • Surface 1 (flat disc jo wire ko cut karta hai): conduction current isse paar karta hai → .
  • Surface 2 (bulging surface jo plates ke beech se guzarti hai): gap ke across koi charge flow nahi karta.

Same loop, do alag answers. Contradiction. Gap mein kuch missing hai.


Displacement current KYA hai?


Isse charge conservation se HOW derive karein

Figure — Displacement current — Maxwell's addition to Ampere's law

Worked Examples


Recall Feynman: 12-saal ke bacche ko samjhao

Socho do metal plates hain jinke beech gap hai. Tum ek plate mein electricity push karte ho. Gap ke across koi spark cross nahi hoti, phir bhi gap ke paas ek compass kaanpti hai — magnetic field appear hoti hai! Kyun? Kyunki gap mein invisible electric field grow kar raha hai, aur Maxwell ne realize kiya ki growing electric field bilkul real electric current ki tarah behave karta hai. Toh magnetic field "gap ko notice nahi karta." Yahi trick hai jis wajah se light exist karti hai: ek electric wiggle ek magnetic wiggle banati hai jo ek electric wiggle banati hai... hamesha ke liye, space mein race karti hui.


Active Recall

What flaw in Ampère's law did Maxwell fix?
Charging capacitor ke liye, same loop par do surfaces alag-alag dete hain (wire vs. gap), ek contradiction.
Define displacement current.
, changing electric flux ka magnetic effect (moving charge nahi).
Why must in a capacitor gap?
Charge conservation: aur se milta hai.
State the Ampère–Maxwell law.
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What does displacement current predict physically?
Self-sustaining EM waves jo par travel karti hain.
Does a spark/charge cross the capacitor gap?
Nahi — sirf electric field change hota hai; woh change current ka role play karta hai.
B inside a charging circular capacitor at radius ?
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in terms of capacitor voltage?
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Connections

Concept Map

requires same answer for

leads to

wire surface gives

gap surface gives

contradiction with

missing piece is

defined as

Id = eps0 dPhiE/dt

shows

resolves

added to

predicts

Ampere's law

Any bounded surface

Charging capacitor paradox

B loop = mu0 I

B loop = 0

Changing electric field

Displacement current Id

Derived from charge conservation

Id equals I in wire

Ampere-Maxwell law

Electromagnetic waves