On the electrodynamics of moving bodies at low velocities

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/4/007zbMATH Open1120.78002arXivphysics/0512200OpenAlexW2088339232MaRDI QIDQ5484495FDOQ5484495

Germain Rousseaux, M. de Montigny

Publication date: 17 August 2006

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

Abstract: We discuss the seminal article in which Le Bellac and Levy-Leblond have identified two Galilean limits of electromagnetism, and its modern implications. We use their results to point out some confusion in the literature and in the teaching of special relativity and electromagnetism. For instance, it is not widely recognized that there exist two well defined non-relativistic limits, so that researchers and teachers are likely to utilize an incoherent mixture of both. Recent works have shed a new light on the choice of gauge conditions in classical electromagnetism. We retrieve Le Bellac-Levy-Leblond's results by examining orders of magnitudes, and then with a Lorentz-like manifestly covariant approach to Galilean covariance based on a 5-dimensional Minkowski manifold. We emphasize the Riemann-Lorenz approach based on the vector and scalar potentials as opposed to the Heaviside-Hertz formulation in terms of electromagnetic fields. We discuss various applications and experiments, such as in magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, superconductivity, continuous media, etc. Much of the current technology where waves are not taken into account, is actually based on Galilean electromagnetism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512200

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zbMATH Keywords

electrodynamics of moving bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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