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What's the most used type of electromagnetic potential? Is it the retarded potentials?
Electromagnetic Potentials in Relativity: Retarded Potentials?
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kent davidge said:What's the most used type of electromagnetic potential? Is it the retarded potentials?
As far as I know, yes. Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory is apparently something that exists, but I know little about it.
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