electric displacement field 1

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a vector field that appears in Maxwell's equations and accounts for the effects of free and bound charge within materials.

  • 1.The Electric Displacement field was first found to be used in the year 1864 by James Clark Maxwell, in his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.
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