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Dgray101
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I am having a bit of trouble understanding something in my textbook and was wondering if you guys could help clarify.
We just learned Faraday's Law that a time variant magnetic field will enduce an emf in a coil. What my textbook says is that " The electric field in the loop is NOT CONSERVATIVE because the line integral of E around a closed path is not zero. "
Can someone try to explain to me why an Electrostatic electric field is conservative yet this induced electric field is non-conservative?
We just learned Faraday's Law that a time variant magnetic field will enduce an emf in a coil. What my textbook says is that " The electric field in the loop is NOT CONSERVATIVE because the line integral of E around a closed path is not zero. "
Can someone try to explain to me why an Electrostatic electric field is conservative yet this induced electric field is non-conservative?