On the Relativistic Transformation of Electromagnetic Fields

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Scientific Paper
Title On the Relativistic Transformation of Electromagnetic Fields
Author(s) Wolfgang Engelhardt
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Published 2004
Journal Apeiron
Volume 11
Number 2
Pages 309-326

Abstract

By investigating the motion of a point charge in an electrostatic and in a magnetostatic field, it is shown that the relativistic transformation of electromagnetic fields leads to ambiguous results. The necessity for developing an `electrodynamics for moving matter' is emphasized.