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Laplace's law
Introduction
Overview
Laplace’s law or The law of Laplace may refer to several concepts,
- Biot-Savart law, in electromagnetics, it describes the magnetic field set up by a steady current density.
- Young-Laplace equation, describing pressure difference over an interface in fluid mechanics.
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