Solution

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Use the constitutive relations and , where is the electric displacement field, the magnetic field strength, the permittivity, and the magnetic permeability. Let be the charge density of free charge and its current density. In this homogeneous medium, Gauss's law and the magnetostatic Ampère law are, respectively,
Here is a volume with closed boundary , and is an oriented spanning surface whose boundary orientation follows the right-hand rule. Thus the electric field form is and ; the magnetic field form is and .
The remaining static Maxwell equations are
These express Gauss's law for magnetism and the static limit of Faraday's law. The volume and circulation forms follow from the divergence theorem and Stokes theorem. The electric charge and electric current on the right of the macroscopic laws are free sources; material electric polarization and magnetization are already included in and .

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