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Force Exerted on a Stationary Charge By a Moving Current Loop

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Scientific Paper
TitleForce Exerted on a Stationary Charge By a Moving Current Loop
Author(s)Oleg D Jefimenko
Keywordsstationary charge, moving current loop, Maxwell's electromagnet theory
Published1993
JournalGalilean Electrodynamics
Volume4
Number6
Pages115-120

Abstract

Maxwell's electromagnetic theory is used for calculating the force exerted by a slowly moving neutral current-carrying loop on a stationary electric charge. It is shown that, contrary to some recent claims, the value that the theory gives for the force exerted by the moving loop on the stationary charge is the same as the value that it gives for the force experienced by the charge when it is moving and the loop is stationary.