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RaduAndrei
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The book "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits" by Anant Agarwal says the following things regarding the defining of an unique voltage between two points (a voltage that doesn't depend on the path taken).
First, it defines the voltage as being the line integral going from x to y of the electric field.
Then it presents the Faraday's law of induction: the line integral over a closed path of the electric field is minus the rate of change of the magnetic flux through a surface delimited by the closed path.
Until now all is clear.
Then the author says a thing which I put in the picture attached. This I don't understand.
(ps: he says that it doesn't have useful meaning because in circuit theory the voltage must be uniquely defined between the two terminals of an electric element).
What does he try to say by choosing x and y to be the same? Like x=y? And what would be the surface in this case?
Then the author tries to define a unique voltage and I understand that to have a unique voltage between two points (so that the voltage doesn't depend on the path taken from x to y), the magnetic field must be constant so that the closed loop line integral is zero and not equal to minus the rate of change of the magnetic flux. I understand this. Because if it's zero then I can say that the line integral going from x to y + the line integral going from y to x is 0.
But I really don't understand what he tries to say in the picture attached.
First, it defines the voltage as being the line integral going from x to y of the electric field.
Then it presents the Faraday's law of induction: the line integral over a closed path of the electric field is minus the rate of change of the magnetic flux through a surface delimited by the closed path.
Until now all is clear.
Then the author says a thing which I put in the picture attached. This I don't understand.
(ps: he says that it doesn't have useful meaning because in circuit theory the voltage must be uniquely defined between the two terminals of an electric element).
What does he try to say by choosing x and y to be the same? Like x=y? And what would be the surface in this case?
Then the author tries to define a unique voltage and I understand that to have a unique voltage between two points (so that the voltage doesn't depend on the path taken from x to y), the magnetic field must be constant so that the closed loop line integral is zero and not equal to minus the rate of change of the magnetic flux. I understand this. Because if it's zero then I can say that the line integral going from x to y + the line integral going from y to x is 0.
But I really don't understand what he tries to say in the picture attached.
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