Electromagnetic force and torque in ponderable media

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14821-14835

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RELATIVITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MOMENTUM; FULLY COMPATIBLE; GROUP REFRACTIVE INDEX; GROUP VELOCITIES; LORENTZ LAW OF FORCE; MACROSCOPIC EQUATION; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

MOMENTUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL STRESS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TORQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TORQUE;

EID: 51849108632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014821     Document Type: Article

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