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We explore the intimate connection between spacetime geometry and electrodynamics. This link is already implicit in the constitutive relations between the field strengths and excitations, which are an essential part of the axiomatic…

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The interaction energy of a given distribution of electric charges and currents with an electromagnetic external field is expressed by the Cartesian components of the multipole tensors of this distribution. Special attention is paid to the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Vrejoiu

By describing the dynamical evolution of a test charged particle in the presence of an electromagnetic field as a succession of infinitesimal Lorentz boosts and rotations it is possible to obtain the Lorentz Force of Electrodynamics. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 J. Buitrago

We will display the fundamental structure of classical electrodynamics. Starting from the axioms of (1) electric charge conservation, (2) the existence of a Lorentz force density, and (3) magnetic flux conservation, we will derive Maxwell's…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov , Guillermo F. Rubilar

Maxwell-Lorenz theory describes only vortex electromagnetic processes. Potential component of the magnetic field is usually excluded by the introduction of mathematical terms: Coulomb and Lorenz gauges. Proposed approach to the construction…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 A. K. Tomilin

This paper presents an alternative prerelativistic approach to the vacuum case of classical electrodynamics represented by vacuum Maxwell equations. Our view is based on the understanding that the corresponding differential equations should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-24 Stoil Donev , Maria Tashkova

The axiomatic structure of the electromagnetic theory is outlined. We will base classical electrodynamics on (1) electric charge conservation, (2) the Lorentz force, (3) magnetic flux conservation, and (4) on the Maxwell-Lorentz spacetime…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

The far-reaching gravitational force is described by a heuristic impact model with hypothetical massless entities propagating at the speed of light in vacuum and transferring momentum and energy be- tween massive bodies through interactions…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 K. Wilhelm , B. N. Dwivedi

The electrostatic force is described in this model by the action of electric dipole distributions on charged particles. The individual hypothetical dipoles are propagating at the speed of light in vacuum transferring momentum and energy…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 K. Wilhelm , B. N. Dwivedi , H. Wilhelm

In the first sections of this article, we discuss two variations on Maxwell's equations that have been introduced in earlier work--a class of nonlinear Maxwell theories with well-defined Galilean limits (and correspondingly generalized…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio A. Ascoli , Gerald A. Goldin

The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giovanni Lapenta , Martin Goldman , David Newman , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin

We investigate which are the independent equations of continuum electrodynamics and what is their number, beginning with the standard equations used in special and in general relativity. We check by using differential identities that there…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Mayeul Arminjon

Based on the analysis of biquaternion quadratic forms of field, it is shown that Maxwell equations arise as a consequence of the principle of conservation of the energy-momentum flow of field in space-time. It turns out that this principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sergey Y. Kotkovskiy

We derive the covariant equations of motion for Maxwell field theory and electrodynamics in multiscale spacetimes with weighted Laplacian. An effective spacetime-dependent electric charge of geometric origin naturally emerges from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-16 Gianluca Calcagni , Joao Magueijo , David Rodríguez Fernández

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

In moving electromagnetic systems, electromagnetic momentum calculated from the vector potential is shown to be proportional to the field energy of the system. The momentum thus obtained is shown actually to be the same as derived from a…

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Author presents mathematical model for acting-on-a-distance attractive and repulsive forces based on propagation of energy waves that produces Newton expression for gravitational and Coulomb expression for electrostatic forces. Model uses…

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The description of dispersion forces within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in linear, dispersing, and absorbing media combines the benefits of approaches based on normal-mode techniques of standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

The electromagnetic theory is considered in the framework of the generally covariant approach, that is applied to the analysis of electromagnetism in noninertial coordinate and frame systems. The special-relat\-ivistic formulation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Yuri N. Obukhov

A new approach to classical electrodynamics is presented, showing that it can be regarded as a particular case of the most general relativistic force field. In particular, at first it is shown that the structure of the Lorentz force comes…

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