Retarded potential

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In electrodynamics, the retarded potentials are the electromagnetic potentials for the electromagnetic field generated by time-varying electric current or charge distributions in the past.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Retarded potential”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Geek3, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.