Electromagnetic energy and momentum in moving media
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Electromagnetic energy and momentum in moving media
The problem of the electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor is among the oldest and the most controversial in macroscopic electrodynamics. In the center of the issue is a dispute about the Minkowski and the Abraham tensors for moving media. An overview of the current situation is presented. After putting the discussion into a general Lagrange-Noether framework, the Minkowski tensor is recovered a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annalen der Physik
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-3804,1521-3889
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200810313