Relativity and the electric dipole moment of a moving, conducting, magnetized sphere

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 493-498

  Krotkov, Robert V ^a   Pellegrini, Gerald N ^b   Ford, Norman C ^b   Swift, Arthur R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0033439704     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.19312     Document Type: Article

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10. Ibid, p. 151. The calculation described here is for electric fields and moments, but the same method may be applied in the magnetic case.
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