We present guidelines for teaching students how to analytically solve problems that involve inhomogeneous media in electrostatic fields, stationary current fields, and stationary magnetic fields. At the introductory level, the focus is on recognizing classes of problems that can be solved in closed form and applying simple rules, based on comparison with solutions in homogeneous media. At the intermediate level, the focus is on strict proofs based on vector calculus.
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