Answer to Question #103171 in Electricity and Magnetism for Ajay

Question

State, giving reasons, whether the following statements are True or False:
(1) Gauss’s law for magnetism suggests that magnetic monopoles exist.

Answer 1

Answer: True

In physics, Gauss's law for magnetism is one of the four Maxwell's equations that underlie classical electrodynamics. It states that the magnetic field B has divergence equal to zero, in other words, that it is a solenoidal vector field. It is equivalent to the statement that magnetic monopoles do not exist