What Does the Lorentz Force Have to do with Maxwell?s Equations?
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | What Does the Lorentz Force Have to do with Maxwell?s Equations? |
| Author(s) | Georg Galeczki |
| Keywords | Lorentz Force, Maxwell?s Equations, Lorentz force; Maxwell equations; Special relativity irrelevance; Hall effect; Lorentz electron microscope |
| Published | 1998 |
| Journal | Galilean Electrodynamics |
| Volume | 9 |
| Number | 5 |
| Pages | 95-97 |
Abstract
The Lorentz force has nothing, either mathematically or physically, to do with Maxwell?s field equa-tions. Properly written FL = q(E(1) + v x B(2)), the Lorentz force is just a phenomenological expression allowing one to describe (parametrically) the motion of a charged particle in the external fields E(1) and B(2) originating from independent sources belonging to different, decoupled systems. Electrodynamics can be built starting from a force-law between moving charges, without separately postulating field equations. There is no need for a ?special? relativity theory.