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They have to do with the behaviour of the electromagnetic field inside of different materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_displacement_field , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field#The_H-field

To get Maxwell's equations in a vacuum, just replace D with εₒE and replace H with B/μₒ.




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