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We consider the forces acting on electrons in magnetic field including the constraints and a condition arising from quantum mechanics. The force is calculated as the electron mass, $m_e$, multiplied by the total time-derivative of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-02 Hiroyasu Koizumi

The Maxwell electromagnetic and the Lorentz type force equations are derived in the framework of the R. Feynman proper time paradigm and the related vacuum field theory approach. The electron inertia problem is analyzed within the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Anatolij K. Prykarpatsky , Nikolai N. Bogolubov

We show that the Lorentz force law, F^L_1=q_1(E+v_1xB) being the charge on particle 1 interacting with the electromagnetic fields due to all other particles, can be written in a pure field form F^L_1=-\nabla_1 U^{EM}. In this expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Philip H. Butler , Niels G. Gresnigt , Martin B. van der Mark , Peter F. Renaud

The self-force of a point charge moving on a rectilinear trajectory is obtained, with no need of any explicit removal of infinities, as the negative of the time rate of change of the momentum of its retarded self-field.

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 V. Hnizdo , G. Vaman

The formula for the electric field of a point charge moving with constant velocity is derived using the symmetry properties of Maxwell's equations - its Lorentz invariance. In contrast to conventional treatments, the derivation presented…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-26 Valery P. Dmitriyev

The purpose of this article is twofold. On one hand, we rigorously derive the Newton--Maxwell equation in the Coulomb gauge from first principles of quantum electrodynamics in agreement with the formal Bohr's correspondence principle of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Zied Ammari , Marco Falconi , Fumio Hiroshima

We present a brief review on spin transverse force, which exerts on the spin as the electron is moving in an electric field. This force, analogue to the Lorentz force on electron charge, is perpendicular to the electric field and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Bin Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

A connection between Maxwell's equations, Newton's laws, and the special theory of relativity is established with a derivation that begins with Newton's verbal enunciation of his first two laws. Derived equations are required to be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-07-17 Allan D. Pierce

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

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

Analytical expression for the Coulomb potential in the presence of superstrong magnetic field is derived. Structure of hydrogen levels originating from LLL is analyzed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 M. I. Vysotsky

The recoil optical force and torque acting on an electromagnetic dipole are typically derived by computing the imbalance in radiated linear and angular electromagnetic momentum coming from the source, using Maxwell stress tensor…

The Lorentz force law of classical electrodynamics requires the introduction of hidden energy and hidden momentum in situations where an electric field acts on a magnetic material. In contrast, the Einstein-Laub formulation does not invoke…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Masud Mansuripur

As a relativistic quantum mechanical effect, it is shown that the electric field exerting a transverse force on an electron spin 1/2 only if the electron is moving and the spin is polarized along the electric field. The spin force, analogue…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shun-Qing Shen

Maxwell's equations can be obtained in generalized coordinates by considering the electromagnetic field as an external agent. The work here presented shows how to obtain the electrodynamics for a charged particle in generalized coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ana Laura Garcia-Perciante , Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo , L. S. Garcia-Colin

In ZM theory the direction of time has a non-zero projection onto space and this projection corresponds to the local velocity relative to the observer. Classical trajectories can be obtained by following the local direction of time. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-19 Yaneer Bar-Yam

The friction force is derived using fractional calculus by considering the non-uniform flow of time in dissipative processes. The approach incorporates inhomogeneous velocity without unphysical approximations, resulting in a Lagrangian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Georgii Koniukov

By exploiting suitably a fundamental theorem by Hilbert, we show that the equation of motion of the electric charges is a consequence of Maxwell field equations.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loinger

A motion of a classical free charge in an electromagnetic plane wave can be found exactly in a fully relativistic case. We have found an approximate non-parameter form of the suitable equations of motion. In a linearly polarized wave, in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. H. Bauer

We propose a modification of Maxwell's macroscopic fundamental set of equations in vacuum in order to clarify Faraday's law of induction. Using this procedure, the Lorentz force is no longer separate from Maxwell's equations. The Lorentz…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-17 Mario J. Pinheiro