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

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

David,

You wrote:
> The CM frame is only accelerating from the point of view of an observer
> at rest in the lab frame (lab observer). But the forces on the electrons
> are equal and opposite in the CM frame, so from the point of view of an
> observer at rest in the CM frame (CM observer), the CM frame is
> inertial."

I do not know where to begin.  I don't know just what this means or what
physics paradigm is being applied.

You also wrote:
> I'm aware of the traditional explanation, but no one has yet shown me
> that the momentum of particles plus fields is conserved in both
> frames, for the specific cases I gave.

The general proof exists in standard E/M texts (Jackson, Panofsky &
Phillips, etc)


Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

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Dave Rutherford
"New Transformation Equations and the Electric Field Four-vector"
http://www.softcom.net/users/der555