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...... My concern is that so many introductory texts bring up this
example in the end-of-the-chapter problem sets. They then leave the students
hanging, with the implication that Maxwell's equations are incorrect.
On 11/29/2006 11:38 AM, John Mallinckrodt opined:
.... the moment we
introduce the Lorentz force, we become almost obliged to point out
the seeming absurdity of a force that depends on velocity--not
*relative* velocity, just velocity--and that vanishes in the frame of
the moving particle.