Re: [Vo]:The Electric Field Outside a Stationary Resistive Wire Carrying a Constant Current

[Harry Veeder]

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:

> > harry veeder wrote:
> > Weber's theory predicts a force (distinct from a lorenz force)
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> Could you be a bit more specific here?
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> Last I heard the Lorentz force, F = q(E + vxB), fully explained the
> behavior of charged particles in E and B fields.


This clipping basically summarizes Weber's force:
http://web.ncf.ca/eo200/weber_clipping.JPG

It comes from the paper "Weberian Induction"
http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis/Phys-Lett-A-V268-p274-278(2000).pdf

harry








 
> Do you know any evidence that this is not the case?
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> > from the relative motion between positive and negative charges 
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> > inside a current carrying wire where electrons move past protons.
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