How to get from static to dynamic electromagnetism

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/ABEE60MaRDI QIDQ6108046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen König

Publication date 29 June 2023

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10111

zbMATH Keywords

Faraday's lawGalilei transformationLorentz transformationMaxwell's equationsrelativity principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in optics and electromagnetic theory (78Axx)

Abstract: We demonstrate how to derive Maxwell's equations, including Faraday's law and Maxwell's correction to Amp`ere's law, by generalizing the description of static electromagnetism to dynamical situations. Thereby, Faraday's law is introduced as a consequence of the relativity principle rather than an experimental fact, in contrast to the historical course and common textbook presentations. As a by-product, this procedure yields explicit expressions for the infinitesimal Lorentz and, upon integration, the finite Lorentz transformation. The proposed approach helps to elucidate the relation between Galilei and Lorentz transformations and provides an alternative derivation of the Lorentz transformation without explicitly referring to the speed of light.

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