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Flaws and ambiguities are pointed out upon examining the comment attempting to solve a problem as raised recently --- the currently accepted formulation of electromagnetic radiation of an accelerated charge violates the principle of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Young-Sea Huang

The angular momentum of the physical electron, modelled as a Dirac fermion coupled to the electromagnetic field, is found to be hbar/2, the same as that of a bare Dirac fermion and independent of the size of the electric charge.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 A. M. Stewart

It is well understood that various alternatives are available within EM theory for the definitions of energy density, momentum transfer, EM stress-energy tensor, and so forth. Although the various options are all compatible with the basic…

General Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 H. E. Puthoff

We report on the continuity equations for linear momentum and energy associated to a recently introduced electromagnetic formulation based on classical dipolar sources [Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 1034 (2023)]. When connected to the…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 B. Anghinoni , M. Partanen , N. G. C. Astrath

This paper offers an informal instructive introduction to some of the main notions of geometric continuum mechanics for the case of smooth fields. We use a metric invariant stress theory of continuum mechanics to formulate a simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Reuven Segev

It is proposed a natural and consistent division of the momentum of electromagnetic waves in linear, non-dispersive and non-absorptive dielectric and magnetic media into material and electromagnetic parts. The material part is calculated…

Optics · Physics 2010-02-04 Pablo L. Saldanha

The problem of calculation of electromagnetic field energy outside the transparency domain is discussed. It is shown that charged particle contribution to the energy of electromagnetic perturbations in the general case can be described in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 S. A. Trigger , A. G. Zagorodny

The time dependent Dirac-Maxwell's Equations in presence of electric and magnetic sources are written in chiral media and the solutions for the classical problem are obtained in unique simple and consistent manner. The quaternion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 P. S. Bisht , Jivan Singh , O. P. S. Negi

The electromagnetic potential is the only force relevant to understand polyelectrolytes and it should enables us to reveal all polyelectrolytes properties. We argue that dielectric spectroscopy probes the average dipole moment of the pure…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Danijel Grgičin

The electromagnetic (EM) radiation force-per-length exerted on a pair of electrically-conducting cylindrical particles of circular and non-circular cross-sections is examined using a formal semi-analytical method based on boundary matching…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 F. G. Mitri

The Abraham-Lorentz force is a finite remnant of the UV singular structure of the self interaction of a point charge with its own field. The satisfactory description of such interaction needs a relativistic regulator. This turns out to be a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-06 Janos Polonyi

Based on an analogy between Fluid Mechanics and Electromagnetism, we claim that the gauge conditions of Classical Electromagnetism are not equivalent contrary to the common belief. These "gauges" are usually considered as mathematical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Germain Rousseaux

The electromagnetic fields of the hybrid modes of an optical fiber are reformulated using bi-complex mathematics, which leads to simpler expressions relative to those found with the widely used, conventional complex formulation. Generalized…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-28 W. Astar

The gravitomagnetic field is the force exerted by a moving body on the basis of the intriguing interplay between geometry and dynamics which is the analog to the magnetic field of a moving charged body in electromagnetism. The existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-16 Behrooz Malekolkalami , Mehrdad Farhoudi

In the previous paper (quant-ph/0204037) we proved that the quantum mechanics not only has statistic interpretation, but also the specific electromagnetic form. Here, from this point of view we show that all the formal particularities of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Kyriakos

We derive an exact expression for the radiation pressure of a quasi- monochromatic plane wave incident from the free space onto the flat surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium. In order to account for the total optical momentum…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-29 Masud Mansuripur

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, general expressions for the Casimir force acting on linearly and causally responding magnetodielectric bodies that can be embedded in another linear and causal magnetodielectric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Christian Raabe , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

It is well known, from Newtonian physics, that apparent forces appear when the motion of masses is described by using a non-inertial frame of reference. The generalized potential of such forces is rigorously analyzed focusing on their…

General Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Elmo Benedetto , Ivana Bochicchio , Christian Corda , Fabiano Feleppa , Ettore Laserra

The exact wave functions, which describe the states of an electron, bound in the image potential, and the magnetic field, which is perpendicular to surface of a metal, are obtained. The correction terms to the energy of an electron in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 P. A. Golovinski , M. A. Preobrazhenskiy

Electromagnetic (EM) composites have stimulated tremendous fundamental and practical interests owing to their flexible electromagnetic properties and extensive potential engineering applications. Hence, it is necessary to systematically…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Faxiang Qin , Mengyue Peng , Diana Estevez , Christian Brosseau