Lorentz and "apparent" transformations of the electric and magnetic fields

2006/07/21 by Tomislav Ivezić, Ivezic, Tomislav
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Relativity and Gravitational Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0607189

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Abstract

It is recently discovered that the usual transformations of the three-dimensional (3D) vectors of the electric and magnetic fields differ from the Lorentz transformations (LT) (boosts) of the corresponding 4D quantities that represent the electric and magnetic fields. In this paper, using geometric algebra formalism, this fundamental difference is examined representing the electric and magnetic fields by bivectors.

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