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Re:Visual tour of classical electromagnetism by alphydan on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:49AM (#16176671)
> But now I know the fields are continuous.

Wait 'til you hear of quantum electrodynamics ;)

Re:Visual tour of classical electromagnetism by Koshkin on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:57AM (#16177485)
To be fair, this is about classical electromagnetism.

What is annoying though, it is the pervasive practice according to which some authors completely ignore H ("intensity of the magnetic field") while others pretend to know nothing (and nor should their students) about B ("magnetic induction").

Somewhat less annoyingly, the teachers of electromagnetism rarely introduce the students to the formulation in terms of differential forms, which many consider a better, more intuitive way of doing electrodynamics compared to vector analysis (which student still should learn, of course).