Two assumptions underlie circuit theory: infinite speed of propagation of force and existence at all times of equilibrium in matter. The theory is therefore essentially of static states. Voltages across all circuit components, including inductors, transformers, generators and others, are differences in potential, traceable to Coulomb forces and obeying Poisson's equation.
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