Jefimenko Made Easy: Electromagnetic Fields through Retardation
Classical Physics
2025-10-07 v2
Abstract
Oleg D. Jefimenko's electrodynamics textbook is unique in its approaches to deriving the electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary charge and current distributions and of an arbitrarily moving point charge. However, an uncommon form of the inhomogeneous wave equation often poses difficulties for readers right from the beginning. In this paper, we substitute in a commonly used form, making his approaches readily accessible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.14930,
title = {Jefimenko Made Easy: Electromagnetic Fields through Retardation},
author = {Shengchao Alfred Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14930},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
30 pages, no figure; Improved language; added question and answer 10; Corrected the author of reference [31] (now [35]); Added references;