Re: 4/3 problem resolution/Action-reaction paradox in pdf format

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

David,
Let me add that in the two electron case the CM frame IS always a zero
momentum frame but it is NOT an inertial frame (the CM is accelerating).
The traditional explanation is that the two electron system is not closed
(isolated);  momentum is being exchanged between the particle system and the
fields.

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: 4/3 problem resolution/Action-reaction paradox in pdf format


> David,
> I have not yet found the time to read your provoking writings, but let me
> raise one question which I have noticed.  You correctly state that the
> Maxwellian forces of interaction between two electrons are not, in the
> general case, "equal and opposite."  You then state that these forces ARE
> equal snd opposite in the CM frame, "because of symmetry".  I doubt the
> truth of this latter statement - please prove.
>
> Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
> trebor@velocity.net
> www.velocity.net/~trebor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Rutherford" <drutherford@SOFTCOM.NET>
> To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:44 PM
> Subject: 4/3 problem resolution/Action-reaction paradox in pdf format
>
>
> > I've written up my "4/3 Problem Resolution" (electromagnetic mass) and
> > "Action-Reaction Paradox Resolution" in pdf format. Conventional vector,
> > electric field, magnetic field, and vector potential notation is used in
> > the descriptions to make them a little easier to follow.
> >
> > The "4/3 Problem Resolution" is at
> >
> > http://www.softcom.net/users/der555/elecmass.pdf
> >
> > and the "Action-Reaction Paradox Resolution" is at
> >
> > http://www.softcom.net/users/der555/actreact.pdf
> >
> > These non-relativistic, three-dimensional, treatments are based on the
> > relativistic, four-dimensional equations in the paper on my webpage at
> >
> > http://www.softcom.net/users/der555/newtransform.pdf
> >
> > --
> > Dave Rutherford
> > "New Transformation Equations and the Electric Field Four-vector"
> > http://www.softcom.net/users/der555