Saturday 8 September 2018

homework and exercises - What would Maxwell's Equations be if we had magnetic charges and magnetic currents?



Mind you, we still have electric charge and electric currents. But, what would Maxwell's equations look like if we had to take magnetic charges and magnetic currents into consideration? Would there be any sign changes?



Answer



By analogy (between $\mathbf{E}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ as they are pretty much equivalent) then the divergeance of $\mathbf{B}$ field wouldn't be 0 anymore, instead: $$\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B}= \frac{\rho_{\rm magnetic}}{\mu_0} $$ With $\rho_{\rm magnetic}$ the magnetic charge density, and $\mu_0$ the permeability in vacuum, to interpret it, the divergence of the magnetic field at a point in space is equal to the magnetic charge density divided by the permeability of space.


As for the curl equations, with magnetic charges, curl of $\mathbf{E}$ should also give a non-zero density current of magnetic charges, i.e.: $$\nabla \times\mathbf{E}= -\mu_0 \mu \frac{\partial \mathbf{H}}{\partial t} + \sigma_m \mathbf{B} $$


Where $\sigma_m$ would then be the magnetic conductivity.


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