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Lienard-Wiechert potential for 2 discrete Qs
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[QUOTE="jmc8197, post: 1481029, member: 15008"] I've tried a simple derivation of the Lienard-Wiecher potential for 2 discrete charges separated by dr, but end up with a result which isn't the same as the theoretically correct version: Take two charges q1 @r1, q2 @r2 with r1 > r2, dr = r1 - r2, parallel and both traveling at velocity v away from and along r1, r2. The observation point is at r = 0. The potential of q1 that arrives at q2 is from a retarded time t' = dr/(v + c). This is when q1 was at r2 + dr - vt' = r2 + dr - v dr/(v + c) = r2 + dr/(1 + B) where B = v/c. So the potential at the observation point can be replaced by an equivalent static q1 and q2 separated by dr/(1 + B), equivalent to increasing the charge density by (1 + B) at r. The total potential is then q2/r2 + q1/(r2 + dr/(1 + B)) which for small dr and q1 = q2 = q can be written using the first two terms of a taylor expansion: q/r2 + q/r2 (1 - dr/(1 + B)r2) = 2q/r2 - q dr/(1 + B)r2^2 ) I'm not sure how to proceed further, since I was hoping to end up with an expression 2q/(1 + B) r2. Can anyone see where I've gone wrong? [/QUOTE]
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