A way to discover Maxwell's equations theoretically

DOI10.1007/S10702-006-0798-7MaRDI QIDQ2432464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Krzysztof Rȩbilas

Publication date 25 October 2006

Published in Foundations of Physics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6531

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: The Coulomb force, established in the rest frame of a source-charge $Q$, when transformed to a new frame moving with a velocity $vecV$ has a form $vecF=qvecE+qvecvimesvecB$, where $vecE=vecE{\text{'}}_{p}arallel+gammavecE{\text{'}}_{p}erp$ and $vecB=vecfracV{c}^{2}imesvecE$ and $vec{E}^{\prime }$ is the electric field in the rest frame of the source. The quantities $vecE$ and $vecB$ are then manifestly interdependent. We prove that they are determined by Maxwell's equations, so they represent the electric and magnetic fields in the new frame and the force $vecF$ is the well known from experiments Lorentz force. In this way Maxwell's equations may be discovered theoretically for this particular situation of uniformly moving sources. The general solutions of the discovered Maxwell's equations lead us to fields produced by accelerating sources.

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