Instantaneous fields in classical electrodynamics
Classical Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In this paper we express the retarded fields of Maxwell's theory in terms of the instantaneous fields of a Galilei-invariant electromagnetic and we find the vector function whose spatial and temporal derivatives transform the instantaneous fields into the retarded ones. We conclude that the instantaneous fields can formally be introduced as unphysical objects into classical electrodynamics which can be used to find the physical retarded fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0701007,
title = {Instantaneous fields in classical electrodynamics},
author = {Jose A. Heras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0701007},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
A minor correction is made in the abstract of the version published in Europhys. Letts