Trouble with the lorentz law of force: Incompatibility with special relativity and momentum conservation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRICAL CHARGES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE DENSITY; GENERAL EXPRESSION; LORENTZ; LORENTZ LAW OF FORCE; MACROSCOPIC EQUATION; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MAGNETIZATION DISTRIBUTION; MATERIAL MEDIUM; MICROSCOPIC EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; SPACE AND TIME; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 84860719252     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.193901     Document Type: Article

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