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Ambiguity in the definition of the magnetic permeability of material media

A. M. Ignatov, A. A. Rukhadze

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: It is shown that the magnetic permeability of material media taking into account both temporal and spatial dispersion is not defined uniquely. The requirement that experimentally measured quantities be obtained in the quasistatic limit does not significantly change this arbitrariness.

UDC: 538.111

PACS: 75.30.Cr

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0135.198109e.0171

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1981, 24:9, 795–797