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"Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity. It is conserved in electromagnetic fields, even when magnetic reconnection dissipates energy. The concept is useful in solar dynamics and in hydromagnetic dynamo theory." Well this is very interesting. Not only do we have conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and conservation of angular momentum, we apparently have conservation of magnetic helicity as well! So it interests me what the SI unit of magnetic helicity is.
Vector potential
volt-seconds / meter
Magnetic field
newton-seconds / coulomb-meter
or
volt-seconds / meter^2
Differential volume element
The SI unit for magnetic helicity would therefore be Webers^2.
Article says "It is a conserved quantity in electromagnetic fields," It is an integral over volume, so is it conserved in each/any volume or only if you integrate over the whole universe ? A simple example/calculation might help ? If it is conserved how is it created ? -
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