Well, I guess I am not sure. Maybe it is Maxwell's equations. I am not entirely sure I know how to phrase the question. What I am curious about is an emission theory that cannot be classified as a ballistic emission theory - like Ritz's or Newton's. Was, to your knowledge, such a theory ever...
I have lately been reading, with interest, the history leading up to Einstein's work as well as some of the debate that ensued after his theories were published. In particular, I was reading some of the ideas Ritz proposed and the disproof of his theories by de Sitter. A question occurred to me...
Chris:
Thanks so much for your reply. I have two, additional questions, if you don't mind.
1. Can you suggest a good reference which discusses this at length? I have several texts on electromagnetic theory but none of them seems to cover this point directly. The closest I could come was...
Suppose my reference system is x coming out of the page toward you, y is in the plane of the page going left and right and z is in the plane of the page going up and down. Further suppose that the magnetic field is parallel to the x-axis and the electric field is parallel to the z axis. Finally...