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electromagnetic potential
1. The electrostatic scalar potential plus the magnetic vector potential.
2. A collective name for a scalar potential, which reduces to the electrostatic potential in a time-independent system, and the vector potential for the magnetic field.

The electric and magnetic fields can be written in terms of these potentials.

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