2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87314An analysis is performed of the role played by physical intuition in expressing the electromagnetic field in terms of its sources in the time-dependent case. The conclusion is that it is dangerous to dissociate physical intuition from the mathematical description of the phenomena.This is an abridged English version of the paper "Intuicao fisica e generalizacao das leis de Coulomb e de Biot-Savart para o caso dependente do tempo", to appear in Portuguese in the Revista Brasileira de Ensino de FisicaPhysics EducationGeneral Physicstext