The effect of electric fields in a classic introductory physics treatment of eddy current forces

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 586-590

  Salzman, P J ^a   Burke, John Robert ^b   Lea, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 23044525881     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: 19432909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1341249     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Susan M. Lea and John R. Burke, Physics: The Nature of Things (Brooks/Cole, 1997), 974.
2. R. K. Wangsness, Electromagnetic Fields (Wiley, New York, 1986), 2nd ed. See problem 17–14, p. 282.
3. For a careful discussion of the much more sophisticated theory due to Maxwell and an extensive list of references see W. M. Saslow, “Maxwell's theory of eddy currents in thin conducting sheets, and applications to electromagnetic shielding and MAGLEV,” Am. J. Phys. AJPIAS 60, 693–711 (1992).AJPIAS
4. J. D. Jackson, “Surface charges on circuit wires and resistors play three roles,” Am. J. Phys. AJPIAS 64, 855–870 (1996).AJPIAS
5. Morse and Feshbach, Methods of Theoretical Physics (McGraw–Hill, New York, 1953), Vol. 1, p. 514.
6. P. Moon and D. E. Spencer, Field Theory Handbook (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1961), pp. 17–19.
7. John R. Burke and Susan Lea (unpublished).