Physical intuition and time-dependent generalization of the Coulomb and Biot-Savart laws
Physics Education
2007-05-23 v1 General Physics
Abstract
An 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.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0508047,
title = {Physical intuition and time-dependent generalization of the Coulomb and Biot-Savart laws},
author = {Nivaldo A. Lemos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508047},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
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 Fisica