The Theory of Lorentz and The Principle of Reaction
... disappears; then, the center of gravity of the system consisting of the matter and energy (regarded as a fictional fluid) has motion which is linear and uniform. Let us suppose, now, that at certain locations, there is destruction of electromagnetic energy, which is transformed into non-electrical e ...
... disappears; then, the center of gravity of the system consisting of the matter and energy (regarded as a fictional fluid) has motion which is linear and uniform. Let us suppose, now, that at certain locations, there is destruction of electromagnetic energy, which is transformed into non-electrical e ...
Many-Minds Quantum Mechanics
... wave function according to the wave functions of the other electrons. I refer to this version as Many-Minds Quantum Mechanics (MMQM) with each electron representing a (simple) mind seeking to solve its own Schrödinger equation. This is to be compared with the accepted view according to the Copenhag ...
... wave function according to the wave functions of the other electrons. I refer to this version as Many-Minds Quantum Mechanics (MMQM) with each electron representing a (simple) mind seeking to solve its own Schrödinger equation. This is to be compared with the accepted view according to the Copenhag ...
Electromagnetism and Relativity
... Here the primed operators and quantities are those in the moving frame which are subject to the Lorentz transformation. As shown in Chapter 8, electromagnetic …elds due to a charged particle moving at an arbitrary velocity can be correctly formulated by the Lienard-Wiechert potentials which had bee ...
... Here the primed operators and quantities are those in the moving frame which are subject to the Lorentz transformation. As shown in Chapter 8, electromagnetic …elds due to a charged particle moving at an arbitrary velocity can be correctly formulated by the Lienard-Wiechert potentials which had bee ...
General relativity and Its applications - UoN Repository
... reference frames of classical mechanics, objects in free motion move along straight lines at constant speed. In modern parlance, their paths are geodesics, straight world lines in curved spacetime. ...
... reference frames of classical mechanics, objects in free motion move along straight lines at constant speed. In modern parlance, their paths are geodesics, straight world lines in curved spacetime. ...
Forces On Moving Objects
... introduced in 1977 by Thomas G. Barnes et al.,3 called here the method of distribution. The method of distribution is accurate and more general than either the absolute or relative methods although it incorporates some aspects of both prior methods. The previous methods, relative and absolute, mathe ...
... introduced in 1977 by Thomas G. Barnes et al.,3 called here the method of distribution. The method of distribution is accurate and more general than either the absolute or relative methods although it incorporates some aspects of both prior methods. The previous methods, relative and absolute, mathe ...
On an Intriguing Invention Albert Einstein Made Which Has Gone
... and we see that, measuring the ratio between a space length l and a time lapse duration d, our “absolute measurement” proportionality constant c has the dimension of… a velocity or speed—why not the “speed of light” which has preoccupied natural philosophers and “physicists” after them ever since th ...
... and we see that, measuring the ratio between a space length l and a time lapse duration d, our “absolute measurement” proportionality constant c has the dimension of… a velocity or speed—why not the “speed of light” which has preoccupied natural philosophers and “physicists” after them ever since th ...
Derivation of the Maxwell`s Equations Based on a Continuum
... open new ways to solve such problems. Fourthly, since quantum theory shows that vacuum is not empty and has physical effects, e.g., the Casimir effect[9, 10, 11, 12], it is valuable to reexamine the old concept of electromagnetic aether. Fifthly, from the point view of reductionism, Maxwell’s theory ...
... open new ways to solve such problems. Fourthly, since quantum theory shows that vacuum is not empty and has physical effects, e.g., the Casimir effect[9, 10, 11, 12], it is valuable to reexamine the old concept of electromagnetic aether. Fifthly, from the point view of reductionism, Maxwell’s theory ...
Supplemental Lecture II: Special Relativity in Tensor Notation
... we call a quantity a vector; this material should be familiar, but the concepts involved will come in handy when trying to understand what we mean by a four-vector. Given three-dimensional Euclidean space, we can define a coordinate system, known as Cartesian coordinates, involving three mutually-pe ...
... we call a quantity a vector; this material should be familiar, but the concepts involved will come in handy when trying to understand what we mean by a four-vector. Given three-dimensional Euclidean space, we can define a coordinate system, known as Cartesian coordinates, involving three mutually-pe ...
Classical Field Theory
... where both a and ~x are considered as labels. Thus we are dealing with a system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom - at least one for each point ~x in space. Notice that the concept of position has been relegated from a dynamical variable in particle mechanics to a mere label in field the ...
... where both a and ~x are considered as labels. Thus we are dealing with a system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom - at least one for each point ~x in space. Notice that the concept of position has been relegated from a dynamical variable in particle mechanics to a mere label in field the ...
LECTURE 1: Email: “He who
... Thus, the motions of freely falling12 particles with respect to a uniformly accelerated frame are indistinguishable from the motions of freely falling particles in a corresponding gravitational field. This is called the weak equivalence principle. We could brush the problem aside by including ẍ in ...
... Thus, the motions of freely falling12 particles with respect to a uniformly accelerated frame are indistinguishable from the motions of freely falling particles in a corresponding gravitational field. This is called the weak equivalence principle. We could brush the problem aside by including ẍ in ...
File - Youngbull Science Center
... of the old theory have been fully verified. It was advanced as a principle by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr earlier in this century when Newtonian mechanics was being challenged by both quantum theory and relativity. According to the correspondence principle, if the equations of special relativity ...
... of the old theory have been fully verified. It was advanced as a principle by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr earlier in this century when Newtonian mechanics was being challenged by both quantum theory and relativity. According to the correspondence principle, if the equations of special relativity ...
JHA i (1970), 56-78 THE MICHELSON-MORLEY
... eil'ier by extremely accurate measurements of the moons of Jupiter or by one way transit comparisons of the velocity of light with and against the Earth’s motion, It is not widely known, however, that Maxwell had tried a similar experiment while first working out his synthesis of electromagnetism a ...
... eil'ier by extremely accurate measurements of the moons of Jupiter or by one way transit comparisons of the velocity of light with and against the Earth’s motion, It is not widely known, however, that Maxwell had tried a similar experiment while first working out his synthesis of electromagnetism a ...
Fulltext PDF
... In spite of these revolutions, one aspect of space-time remained Aristotelian: It continued to be a passive arena for all 'happenings', a canvas on which the dynamics of the universe are painted. In the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematicians discovered that Euclid's geometry that we all ...
... In spite of these revolutions, one aspect of space-time remained Aristotelian: It continued to be a passive arena for all 'happenings', a canvas on which the dynamics of the universe are painted. In the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematicians discovered that Euclid's geometry that we all ...
Modern Physics
... bodies collide, the total momentum remains constant assuming the bodies are isolated (that is, they interact only with each other) • Now suppose the collision is described in a reference frame S in which momentum is conserved. If the velocities of the colliding bodies are calculated in a second movi ...
... bodies collide, the total momentum remains constant assuming the bodies are isolated (that is, they interact only with each other) • Now suppose the collision is described in a reference frame S in which momentum is conserved. If the velocities of the colliding bodies are calculated in a second movi ...
Relativity without tears - Philsci
... analysis; See for example [25, 26], or earlier considerations by Lalan [34]). I suspect, this was considered as an unnecessary complication, making the approach “unavailable for a general education physics course” [26]. The focus has shifted since then from reference frames and clock synchronization ...
... analysis; See for example [25, 26], or earlier considerations by Lalan [34]). I suspect, this was considered as an unnecessary complication, making the approach “unavailable for a general education physics course” [26]. The focus has shifted since then from reference frames and clock synchronization ...
The Lorentz Force and the Radiation Pressure of Light
... one cycle is negligible, i.e., we can take the slowly increasing velocity vz to be constant during one cycle.”2 With these assumptions the Berkeley authors conclude that the average force on the charge is hF i = qhvx By ik̂. Although at first glance the result may seem plausible, it is also incorrec ...
... one cycle is negligible, i.e., we can take the slowly increasing velocity vz to be constant during one cycle.”2 With these assumptions the Berkeley authors conclude that the average force on the charge is hF i = qhvx By ik̂. Although at first glance the result may seem plausible, it is also incorrec ...
Why did Einstein`s Programme supersede Lorentz`s? (II)
... Relativity which applies to mechanics butjapparently not to electrodynamics.1 In view of the Galilean transformation which physicists took for granted, Maxwell's equations seem to presuppose the existence of an ether, or at any rate of a unique frame of reference in which they would hold good. Asses ...
... Relativity which applies to mechanics butjapparently not to electrodynamics.1 In view of the Galilean transformation which physicists took for granted, Maxwell's equations seem to presuppose the existence of an ether, or at any rate of a unique frame of reference in which they would hold good. Asses ...
Lorentz Force Effects on the Orbit of a Charged Artificial Satellite: A
... in the non-canonical variables ( r , p = m r& ) as demonstrated by Littlejohn (1982, 1979), who used these coordinates in a perturbation theory for highly charged particles in slowly varying electromagnetic fields. The existence of this constant Hamiltonian in a rotating frame suggests that only the ...
... in the non-canonical variables ( r , p = m r& ) as demonstrated by Littlejohn (1982, 1979), who used these coordinates in a perturbation theory for highly charged particles in slowly varying electromagnetic fields. The existence of this constant Hamiltonian in a rotating frame suggests that only the ...
The effective mass tensor in the General Relativity
... General Relativity (GR) is more complex than the concept of mass in special relativity. In fact, GR does not offer a single definition for the term mass, but offers several different definitions which are applicable under different circumstances [1, 4]. ...
... General Relativity (GR) is more complex than the concept of mass in special relativity. In fact, GR does not offer a single definition for the term mass, but offers several different definitions which are applicable under different circumstances [1, 4]. ...
matter, mass and electromagnetic mass
... methodologies as Kaufmann, Abraham, Poincaré and Lorentz used (which would include ether) in order to arrive at his abstract magnitudes for electromagnetic mass. Second, Einstein premised his concepts of relativistic mass and relativistic dynamics on the ad hoc concept of electromagnetic mass (which ...
... methodologies as Kaufmann, Abraham, Poincaré and Lorentz used (which would include ether) in order to arrive at his abstract magnitudes for electromagnetic mass. Second, Einstein premised his concepts of relativistic mass and relativistic dynamics on the ad hoc concept of electromagnetic mass (which ...
ON THE ORIGIN OF THE INERTIA
... Sciama belatedly realized that he had a precursor. Sciama started with the classic theory that proclaims that the gravitation force derives from a scalar potential and he added a vector potential, occupying the gravitational mass the place of the electric charge. The gravitational field has a gravit ...
... Sciama belatedly realized that he had a precursor. Sciama started with the classic theory that proclaims that the gravitation force derives from a scalar potential and he added a vector potential, occupying the gravitational mass the place of the electric charge. The gravitational field has a gravit ...
Relativistic Dynamics
... electromagnetic phenomena had wavelike solutions, and predicted a speed which coincided with the measured speed of light, suggested that electric and magnetic fields were stresses or strains in the aether, and Maxwell's equations were presumably only precisely correct in the frame in which the aethe ...
... electromagnetic phenomena had wavelike solutions, and predicted a speed which coincided with the measured speed of light, suggested that electric and magnetic fields were stresses or strains in the aether, and Maxwell's equations were presumably only precisely correct in the frame in which the aethe ...
pages 401-450 - Light and Matter
... are other fundamental fields of force such as electricity and magnetism (ch. 10-11). Ripples of the electric and magnetic fields turn out to be light waves. This tells us that the speed at which electric and magnetic field ripples spread must be c, and by an argument similar to the one in subsection ...
... are other fundamental fields of force such as electricity and magnetism (ch. 10-11). Ripples of the electric and magnetic fields turn out to be light waves. This tells us that the speed at which electric and magnetic field ripples spread must be c, and by an argument similar to the one in subsection ...
Relativity
... This is the normal sensation if the elevator is sitting on the surface of the Earth and not ...
... This is the normal sensation if the elevator is sitting on the surface of the Earth and not ...