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Lorenz or Coulomb in Galilean Electromagnetism ?

Classical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Physics Education General Physics

Abstract

Galilean Electromagnetism was discovered thirty years ago by Levy-Leblond & Le Bellac. However, these authors only explored the consequences for the fields and not for the potentials. Following De Montigny & al., we show that the Coulomb gauge condition is the magnetic limit of the Lorenz gauge condition whereas the Lorenz gauge condition applies in the electric limit of L\'{e}vy-Leblond & Le Bellac. Contrary to De Montigny & al. who used Galilean tensor calculus, we use orders of magnitude based on physical motivations in our derivation.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0502129,
  title  = {Lorenz or Coulomb in Galilean Electromagnetism ?},
  author = {Germain Rousseaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0502129},
  year   = {2007}
}

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