A short modern review of fundamental electromagnetic theory

The paper is concerned with the teaching of the fundamentals of electromagnetism; it is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with a method of presenting electromagnetic concepts to the student which takes the inverse square law of force between magnetic poles or electric charges as its starting points. This method is considered to result in a more satisfying sequence of thought than that usually adopted, because the symmetry of magnetic and electrical relations is stressed. Part 2 is a detailed discussion of the teaching of Faraday´s laws of electromagnetic induction. Part 3 is a presentation of Maxwell´s equations in terms of electric and magnetic flux density.