The present status of Maxwell's displacement current

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-166

  Roche, John ^a  

^a LINACRE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/19/2/009     Document Type: Article

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