Naslov
The difference between the standard and the Lorentz transformations of the electric and the magnetic fields. Application to motional EMF

Autori
Ivezić, Tomislav

Izvornik
Foundations of Physics Letters (0894-9875) 18 (2005), 4; 301-324

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
standard and Lorentz transformations of the electric and magnetic fields; motional emf

Sažetak
In this paper it is shown by using the Clifford algebra formalism that the usual Lorentz transformations of the three-dimensional (3D) vectors of the electric and magnetic fields E and B (which will be named as standard transformations (ST)) are different than the Lorentz transformations (LT) of well-defined quantities from the 4D spacetime. This difference between the ST and the LT is obtained regardless of the used algebraic objects (1-vectors or bivectors) for the representation of the electric and magnetic fields in the usual observer dependent decompositions of F. The LT correctly transform the whole 4D quantity, e.g., E_f=F.gamma_0, whereas the ST are the result of the application of the LT only to the part of E_f, i.e., to F, but leaving gamma_0 unchanged. The new decompositions of F in terms of 4D quantities that are defined without reference frames, i.e., the absolute quantities, are introduced and discussed. It is shown that the LT of the 4D quantities representing electric and magnetic fields correctly describe the motional electromotive force (emf) for all relatively moving inertial observers, whereas it is not hte case with the ST of the 3D E and B.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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