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This came up while I was trying to research the interaction of an electromagnetic plane wave with a dielectric slab, though the issues appear to be more fundamental.
The first confusion: An EE"s claim that there is "trouble with the Lorentz law of Force", published in physics review letters.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0096
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3485 (not PRL, but an EE journal)
I don't believe this. (But it's published in genuine peer-reviewed print).
The second confusion: A rebuttal by Griffiths, which however relies heavily on "hidden momentum"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4646
I would have believed this, but...
The third confusion: A paper by Franklin that debunks hidden momentum (mentioned in another thread).
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4646
I haven't studied this enough to have a personal opinion yet, but it's a bit dissapointing that there's so much confusion on such basic issues in the literature!
Also, I don't know what papers to recommend to students at this point regarding the Lorentz force law issue, nor the starting questing about the interaction of a plane wave with a dielectric slab. (for example, Mansuripur's http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7057 published in Optics Express, which I'm not familiar with).
The first confusion: An EE"s claim that there is "trouble with the Lorentz law of Force", published in physics review letters.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0096
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3485 (not PRL, but an EE journal)
I don't believe this. (But it's published in genuine peer-reviewed print).
The second confusion: A rebuttal by Griffiths, which however relies heavily on "hidden momentum"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4646
I would have believed this, but...
The third confusion: A paper by Franklin that debunks hidden momentum (mentioned in another thread).
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4646
I haven't studied this enough to have a personal opinion yet, but it's a bit dissapointing that there's so much confusion on such basic issues in the literature!
Also, I don't know what papers to recommend to students at this point regarding the Lorentz force law issue, nor the starting questing about the interaction of a plane wave with a dielectric slab. (for example, Mansuripur's http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7057 published in Optics Express, which I'm not familiar with).