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Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.I think the point is, that for the charge line-density, the quadratic term in ##\beta'## is the first nonzero term. The constant terms... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.The simplified calculation, I linked to in posting #42, does an approximation for small ##v## in equation (1). But of course, the... -
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Isn't the explanation simply that even a second order term can be relevant if it has a large enough constant factor? You should... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.I think that cannot be, because Purcell does a calculation of the electric force in the rest frame of the object via lenght contraction... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.At @PeterDonis wrote in posting #4, the Lorentz force is ##F = q \left( \vec{E} + \vec{v} \times \vec{B} \right)##. If there is no... -
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You might be right here. My statement above was based on symmetry w.r.t. the normal to the conductor that passes through the test... -
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except the force, cause I don't know the force's direction in frame ##S## now. -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.Does my picture in posting #26 describe correctly your case in lab-frame ##S##? -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.In the labframe ##S## in my drawing in posting #26, the ##x## axis points in the same horizontal direction as ##u_1##, the ##y## axis in... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.As I understand your scenario, the object is moving in frame ##S## not parallel and not perpendicular to the conductor. But the force... -
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Which is equivalent to what I wrote in post #4, i.e., it is not just the magnetic force. So what I said in post #4 would apply if one... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity?.One could start from the equation for the Lorentz 4-force and from that it is rest mass-preserving. Source -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations?.In Geometric Algebra, the Hodge * operation is replaced by an algebraic operation, a multiplication with the unit pseudo-scalar ##I##... -
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Here's a different approach by Fred Hehl: (1999) Classical Electrodynamics: A Tutorial on its Foundations Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations?.This can be found in chapter 38 of the book "Introduction to Special Relativity, 2nd Edition" by Wolfgang Rindler...






