Maxwell Equations and Inertial Transformations

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Scientific Paper
Title Maxwell Equations and Inertial Transformations
Author(s) Biagio Buonaura
Keywords special relativity; Maxwell equations; conventionality
Published 2004
Journal Foundations of Physics Letters
Volume 17
Number 7
No. of pages 18
Pages 627-644

Abstract

The inertial transformations of the space and time variables have recently been shown to provide a viable alternative description of relativistic phenomena. In the present paper we find the inertial transformations of a force by starting from Newton's law. This allows us to write also the inertial transformations of the electric and magnetic fields. Relative to a moving frame, the Maxwell equations assume a novel velocity-dependent form.