Question

Maxwell’s displacement current is a response to inconsistency in the ______.

Options

• Lenz’s law

• Faraday’s law

• Ampere’s law

• Gauss’s law

Answer 1

Maxwell’s displacement current is a response to inconsistency in the ampere’s law.

Explanation:

Ampere's circuital law is logically contradictory, as Maxwell demonstrated. A parallel plate capacitor charged by a battery came to mind. He demonstrated contradiction of the law in the regions outside and just between the capacitor plates. Maxwell invented displacement current to solve this contradiction.