Non-Conservative Electric Field

[tonyjk]

Hello,
Please I would like to know why in a circuit that contains an inductor we say that the potential drop across the inductor is equal to the integral of a Conservative electric field meanwhile we know that the electric field is non-conservative across an inductor.
Thank you

 

[tonyjk]

i've read this article : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magnetism-spring-2002/lecture-notes/lecsup41.pdf. So as i understood that Giancoli has introduced the potential drop across an inductor just to make the study of circuits more easier right?

 

[DrZoidberg]

Here is a great lecture to confuse you some more.


But I can tell you that you only ever have to worry about the non conservative field of an inductor when you are dealing with a very small number of windings. An inductor with a large number of windings should never show any "weird" behavior.

 

[tonyjk]

I'm not worry:P.. But i was asking why the potential drop is related to the non-conservative field although we know the potential drop is related to the conservative field..