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Displacement current

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  1. 1
    The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.

    "When a capacitor is charging, a current flows into one of its two plates, a displacement current flows from that plate to its other plate, and a current flows out of that other plate."

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