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This paper is a review of the canonical proper-time approach to relativistic mechanics and classical electrodynamics. The purpose is to provide a physically complete classical background for a new approach to relativistic quantum theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Tepper L. Gill , Woodford W. Zachary

The Maxwell-Dirac equations are the equations for electronic matter, the "classical" theory underlying QED. In this article we examine the stationary Maxwell-Dirac equations under weak regularity and decay assumptions. We prove that: There…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Radford

The Maxwell's electromagnetic equations are isomorphic to the motion equation of a linear elastic continuum which is hard to compression though liable to shear deformation. The Coulomb gauge expresses the medium incompressibility. The…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Dmitriyev

The electric and magnetic fields of a spatio-temporally varying electric current loop are calculated using the Jefimenko equations. The radiation and the nonradiation parts of the electromagnetic fields are derived in the framework of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Markus Lazar

While the electromagnetic force is microscopically simply the Lorentz force, its macroscopic form is more complicated, and given by expressions such as the Maxwell stress tensor and the Kelvin force. Their derivation is fairly opaque, at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-23 Mario Liu , Klaus Stierstadt

The classical theory of electrodynamics is built upon Maxwell's equations and the concepts of electromagnetic field, force, energy, and momentum, which are intimately tied together by Poynting's theorem and the Lorentz force law. Whereas…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 Masud Mansuripur

Maxwell's equations and the Dirac equation are the first-order differential relativistic wave equation for electromagnetic waves and electronic waves respectively. Hence, there is a notable similarity between these two wave equations, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

The formulation of a complete theory of classical electromagnetism by Maxwell is one of the milestones of science. The capacity of many-body systems to provide emergent mini-universes with vacua quite distinct from the one we inhabit was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-30 J. Rehn , R. Moessner

Extending the holographic program of [1], we derive f(R) gravity and the Maxwell equations from the holographic principle, using time-like holographic screen. We find that to derive the Einstein equations and f(R) gravity in a natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Rong-Xin Miao , Jun Meng , Miao Li

The main focus of the present work is to study the Feynman's proof of the Maxwell equations using the NC geometry framework. To accomplish this task, we consider two kinds of noncommutativity formulations going along the same lines as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Boulahoual , M. B. Sedra

Electromagnetic fields of an accelerated charge are derived from the first principles using Coulomb's law and the relativistic transformations. The electric and magnetic fields are derived first for an instantaneous rest frame of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Ashok K. Singal

We prove that, when linearized, the governing equations of an incompressible elastic continuum yield Maxwell's equations as corollaries. Through judicious distinction between the referential and local descriptions, the principle of material…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-11 C. I. Christov

During the past century, there has been considerable discussion and analysis of the motion of a point charge, taking into account "self-force" effects due to the particle's own electromagnetic field. We analyze the issue of "particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-12 Samuel E. Gralla , Abraham I. Harte , Robert M. Wald

The standard derivations of electromagnetic energy and momentum in media take Maxwell's equations as the starting point. It is well known that for dispersive media this approach does not directly yield exact expressions for the energy and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. G. Philbin

In the recent work~\cite{Wang:2021p2}, the author proposed the expanded Maxwell's equations for moving charged media system, which seems subtle. Considering a very short time, we can approximately define the inertial frame of reference. If…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Chuang Li , Junle Pei , Tianjun Li

We set up the Maxwell's equations and the corresponding classical wave equations for the electromagnetic waves which together with the generating source, a traveling oscillatory charge of zero rest mass, comprise a particle traveling in the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-10-05 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

Maxwell's equations with massive photons and magnetic monopoles are formulated using spacetime algebra. It is demonstrated that a single non-homogeneous multi-vectorial equation describes the theory. Two limiting cases are considered and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Carlo Cafaro , S. A. Ali

Quaternion analysis of time dependent Maxwell's equations in presence of electric and magnetic charges has been developed and the solutions for the classical problem of moving charges (electric and magnetic) are obtained in unique, simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jivan Singh , P. S. Bisht , O. P. S. Negi

The similarity between electromagnetics and hydrodynamics has been noticed for a long time. Maxwell developed an analogy, where the magnetic field and the vector potential in electromagnetics are compared to the vorticity and velocity in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-13 Kai-Xin Hu

In this paper a formulation of the field equation for moving media is developed by the generalization of an axiomatic geometric formulation of the electromagnetism in vacuum (Ivezi\'{c} T 2005 Found. Phys. Lett. 18 401. First, the field…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Tomislav Ivezic