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Faraday's Law

You should now be familiar with the long integral mathematical form of Faraday's Law of magnetic induction: in SI units,

Suppose we get annoyed at the complexity of this formula and decide to shrink the loop and its enclosed area down to an infinitesimal point; then we no longer have to worry about macroscopic changes in or but can reduce the problem to differentials. Without showing a detailed derivation, I will merely state that the circulation per unit area can be expressed in terms of the curl of and ``it can be shown'' that the integral equation above is completely equivalent to the differential form of Faraday's Law, which describes part of the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields at every point in space:

This says, in essence, that any change in the magnetic field with time induces an electric field perpendicular to the changing magnetic field.

Hold that thought.