Displacement Current — Study Resources & PYQs
Concept of displacement current in electromagnetic theory.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- NPTEL EM Theory - Week 6 (Maxwell's equations, Poynting's theorem) (Article) — Week 6 derives displacement current and shows why it had to be added to Ampere's law to make Maxwell's equations self-consistent.
- Electromagnetic Theory (EE) - Week 6, IIT Kanpur (Article) — Covers displacement current and Maxwell's equations from an engineering angle, with skin depth and wave propagation as a bonus.
- Physics Wallah (Alakh Pandey) - Displacement Current and Maxwell's Equations (Video) — Video lecture explaining the concept and need for displacement current, leading into Maxwell's equations.
- Wikipedia - Displacement Current (Article) — Wikipedia article on displacement current: its origin, physical meaning, and role in Ampere-Maxwell law.
- Vaia - Maxwell's Equations Integral Form: Derivation & Examples (Article) — Step-by-step derivation of Maxwell's four equations in differential form from their integral form using divergence/Stokes' theorem.
- USPAS - Lecture: Maxwell's Equations (PDF) (Article) — Concise lecture slide deck (PDF) listing Maxwell's equations side-by-side in both integral and differential form.
- Introduction to Semiconductor Devices - IIT Hyderabad (Article) — Week 2 is entirely intrinsic carrier density, Fermi level, donors and acceptors, Fermi level in extrinsic semiconductors and carrier generation-recombination. Week 3 is mobility, drift current and di…
Displacement Current previous year questions
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