Trouble with the Lorentz Law of force: Response to critics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8455, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LORENTZ LAW OF FORCE; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MATERIAL MEDIA;

ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84872456110     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.930133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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