While discussing reciprocal theorems most textbooks mention only Maxwell's reciprocal theorem as a consequence of Betti's theorem. Textbooks investigating this topic in detail mention three reciprocal theorems. In this paper we show that there exist exactly 10 reciprocal theorems and we illustrate each with an example.
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