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Magnetostatics is generally developed in a different manner from electrostatics. This is due to the fact that the magnetic field has zero divergence, whereas the electric field has zero curl.
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Bronzan, J B, 1971, “The Magnetic Scalar Potential,” Amer. J. Phys. 39, 1357–9. The present chapter is based in part on this reference.
Jackson, J. D., 1975, Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed. ( J. Wiley, New York), sec. 5. 6.
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Bronzan, J.B. (1982). Magnetic Scalar Potentials and the Multipole Expansion for Magnetostatics. In: Teplitz, D. (eds) Electromagnetism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0650-5_5
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