Dynamic creation of electrostatic fields

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-54

  Berman, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 38349116510     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2787018     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. See, for example, O. L. Brill and B. Goodman, "Causality in the Coulomb gauge," Am. J. Phys. 35, 832-837 (1967);
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3. F. Rohrlich, "Causality, the Coulomb field and Newton's law of gravitation," Am. J. Phys. 70, 411-414 (2002);
4. J. D. Jackson, "From Lorenz to Coulomb and other explicit gauge transformations," Am. J. Phys. 70, 917-928 (2002).
5. See, for example, E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963), Sec. 5.7;
6. R. Y. Tsien, "Pictures of dynamic electric fields," Am. J. Phys. 40, 46-56 (1972).
7. Mandel considered the radiation field emitted by a dipole that is created and decays. He argued that energy flows into the field only during the excitation process. See L. Mandel, "Energy Flow from an atomic dipole in classical electrodynamics," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 1101-1102 (1972).
8. See, for example, M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed. (Cambridge U.P, Cambridge, 1999), Sec. 2.2.3.
9. The dipole moment (14) approximates a function whose derivatives have compact support in the interval 0 1 and ṗ(t), p̈(t) ≈ 0 for t ≤ 0 and t ≥ 1.