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Lorentz Transformations of the Electric and Magnetic Fields According to Minkowski

General Physics 2017-06-06 v2

Abstract

The usual transformations (UT) of the 3-vectors E and B that are found by Lorentz, Poincar\'{e} and independently by Einstein in 1905. are generally considered to be the Lorentz transformations (LT) of E and B. According to the UT E in one frame is 'seen' as E' and B' in a relatively moving frame. In Minkowski's last paper, in 1908. in section 11.6, he defined the vectors (with four components) of the electric Φ\Phi and magnetic Ψ\Psi fields and discovered that, e.g., Φ\Phi correctly transforms by the LT again to Φ\Phi ^{\prime}. His correct LT are reinvented in, e.g., [11] ([11] Ivezi\'{c} T 2005 Found. Phys. Lett. 18 301). In this paper we show the essential similarity and some differences between Minkowski's relations in section 11.6 and the results obtained in [11]. The low-velocity limit of the UT and the LT is briefly examined. A short discussion of the comparison with the Trouton-Noble experiment is presented.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3166,
  title  = {Lorentz Transformations of the Electric and Magnetic Fields According to Minkowski},
  author = {Tomislav Ivezic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3166},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Section 4. and also a new paragraph at the end of Sec. 3 are added. Some small changes in the Abstract and the text are made and new references are added as well.