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Topic: magnetic effect |
Bob Metzger
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Waltham (Boston), MA, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2004 11:33 pm |
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| When I drove my VW bug by the JBL factory here in California, all of a sudden I was going 85 mph without giving my car more gas. Or was that JPL I was driving by? |
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Bob Metzger
From:
Waltham (Boston), MA, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2004 11:40 pm
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| Sorry, I meant the above post to go to "I'm getting a gallon of this stuff". |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2004 11:55 pm
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| The magnetic effect is simply the electrostatic force with consideration given to Lorentz contraction of the moving charges, making them closer together than the stationary charges, resulting in a net nonzero charge and a "magnetic" force; hence the familiar relativistic invariance of the Maxwell equations. |
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 5 Aug 2004 11:00 am
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What Earnest said - or, more simply put - "Relativistic Electro-static attraction" (or repulsion). [I coined that phrase myself!]
Always regret not becoming a theoretical physicist. Oh well...at least I still have my hair ! Do you still have your hair, Earnest? |
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Mark Herrick
From:
Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 5 Aug 2004 11:18 am
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I've seen Earnest's hair, and I think it's someone else's...
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