Question

Maxwell modified Ampere’s Circuital Law.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

The above asked question is from Displacement Current in division Alternating Current of Physics – Class 12

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

Easy explanation: Yes, Maxwell modified Ampere’s Law. Ampere’s law is true just for steady currents. Maxwell found the shortcoming in Ampere’s law and he modified Ampere’s law to incorporate time-varying electric fields. Maxwell was the one responsible for the correction of the Ampere’s circuital law by the addition of displacement current. He said that we’ve to think about not only the present existing outside the capacitor but also the present referred to as displacement current that existed between the plates of the capacitor.