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- Abampere [r]: Unit of electric current in the cgs-emu system of units; symbol abA; 1 abA = 10 A. [e]
- Acceleration [r]: The increase of an objects velocity (or speed) per unit time. [e]
- Ampere (unit) [r]: Unit of electric current; symbol A; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Ampere's equation [r]: Gives the force between two electric current-carrying wires. [e]
- Ampere's law [r]: The integral of a magnetic field over a closed path is equal to the conduction current through the surface bounded by the path. [e]
- Biot-Savart's law [r]: Gives the magnetic field at some distance of an electric current-carrying wire. [e]
- Carl Friedrich Gauss [r]: German mathematician, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of mathematics and mathematical physics (1777 – 1855). [e]
- Coulomb's law [r]: An inverse-square distance law, like Newton's gravitational law, describing the forces acting between electric point charges; also valid for the force between magnetic poles. [e]
- Electric displacement [r]: a vector field D in a dielectric; D is proportional to the outer electric field E. [e]
- Electric field [r]: force acting on an electric charge—a vector field. [e]
- Electromagnetic wave [r]: a change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
- Electromagnetism [r]: Phenomena and theories regarding electricity and magnetism. [e]
- Factor-label conversion of units [r]: A widely used method for converting one set of dimensional units to another set of equivalent units. [e]
- Force [r]: Vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. [e]
- Gauss (unit) [r]: Gaussian unit of magnetic flux density B; symbol G; 1 G = 1 Mx/cm2 = 10 000 T. [e]
- Gauss' law (electrostatics) [r]: Relates the surface integral of the electric displacement through a closed surface to the electric charge enveloped by the closed surface. [e]
- Hans Christian Oersted [r]: (Rudkøbing, August 14, 1777 – Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) Danish physicist and chemist best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric current on the orientation of a compass needle. [e]
- Intermolecular forces [r]: Non-covalent forces between atoms and molecules; often synonymous with Van der Waals forces. [e]
- Lorentz force [r]: Force on an electrically charged particle that moves through a magnetic and an electric field. [e]
- Lorentz-Lorenz relation [r]: An equation describing the relation between the density and index of refraction of a dielectric. [e]
- Magnetic constant [r]: Is proportionality factor in Ampère's equation which relates mechanical force and electric current. [e]
- Magnetic field [r]: Vector field H caused by permanent magnets, conduction currents, and displacement currents. [e]
- Magnetic flux [r]: Is the total magnetic induction B integrated over a surface S. [e]
- Magnetic induction [r]: Vector field B, closely related to the magnetic field H; in common parlance B is the magnetic field. [e]
- Mass [r]: The total amount of a substance, or alternatively, the total energy of a substance. [e]
- Maxwell (unit) [r]: Gaussian unit of magnetic flux; symbol Mx; 1 Mx = 1 abV⋅s = 10−8 Wb. [e]
- Maxwell equations [r]: Mathematical equations describing the interrelationship between electric and magnetic fields; dependence of the fields on electric charge- and current- densities. [e]
- Oersted (unit) [r]: Unit of magnetic-field strength |H| in the Gaussian system of units; symbol Oe; 1 Oe = 1000/4π A⋅turn/m. [e]
- Polarizability [r]: The ease by which a charge-distribution polarizes; describes the amount of charge separation caused by an electric field. [e]
- Relative permittivity [r]: an intrinsic property of a dielectric; it is the proportionality constant between an electric field and an electric displacement in a dielectric. [e]
- Second [r]: Unit of time; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Statampere [r]: Electric current in the Gaussian system of units; symbol statA; 1 statA = 1 A/(10⋅c); c is the speed of light in m/s. [e]
- Statvolt [r]: Unit of electric voltage; symbol statV; 1 statV = 10−6×c volt; c speed of light in m/s. [e]
