1996/11/01 by Mark D. Semon, John R. Taylor · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Computational Physics and Python Applications
paper · doi:10.1119/1.18400
openalex publication_date 1996/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
We collect together several ideas that we have found helpful in teaching the magnetic vector potential A. We argue that students can be taught to visualize A for simple current distributions and to see A as something with physical significance beyond its bare definition as the ‘‘thing whose curl is B.’’