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    An electromagnetic four-potential is a relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric...
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    content of classical electromagnetism can be written in a concise and convenient form using the electromagnetic four potential, especially when the Lorenz...
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    In electromagnetism, the electromagnetic tensor or electromagnetic field tensor (sometimes called the field strength tensor, Faraday tensor or Maxwell...
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    centuries before light was understood to be an electromagnetic wave. However, the theory of electromagnetism, as it is currently understood, grew out of...
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    Gauge fixing (category Electromagnetism)
    Heaviside–Gibbs formulation of continuum electrodynamics in terms of an electromagnetic four-potential, which is presented here in space/time asymmetric Heaviside...
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    } Covariant classical field theory Electromagnetic tensor Electromagnetic wave equation Liénard–Wiechert potential for a charge in arbitrary motion Moving...
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    Gauge theory (redirect from Gauge potential)
    Gluon field strength tensor Quantum electrodynamics Electromagnetic four-potential Electromagnetic tensor Quantum field theory Standard Model Standard...
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    while the electromagnetic potentials are purely mathematical constructs, that due to gauge freedom are not even unique for a given electromagnetic field....
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    together as the electromagnetic four-potential. If F is a conservative vector field (also called irrotational, curl-free, or potential), and its components...
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    In electromagnetism and applications, an inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation, or nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation, is one of a set...
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    Liénard–Wiechert potentials describe the classical electromagnetic effect of a moving electric point charge in terms of a vector potential and a scalar potential in...
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    mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field that are used in the study of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental interactions of nature...
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    In electrodynamics, the retarded potentials are the electromagnetic potentials for the electromagnetic field generated by time-varying electric current...
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  • field in the same way that, by analogy, the electromagnetic four-potential generates the electromagnetic field. The Lanczos tensor can be defined in a...
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  • charged particle of charge q, moving in an electromagnetic field given by the electromagnetic four-potential: A = ( A 0 , A 1 , A 2 , A 3 ) = ( ϕ c , A...
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    space, a particle's four-momentum pμ, the amplitude of the electromagnetic four-potential Aμ(x) at a point x in spacetime, and the elements of the subspace...
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  • acceleration Electromagnetic four-potential, a relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived Coulomb potential Van der Waals...
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  • The electromagnetic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a medium...
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    quarks. It plays the same role in quantum chromodynamics as the electromagnetic four-potential in quantum electrodynamics – the gluon field constructs the...
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  • as arising from modifying the electromagnetic wave equation to describe a particle with nonzero mass. The electromagnetic wave equation reads ◻ A μ = source...
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    physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields. The electromagnetic force is...
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  • (2011). Understanding Geometric Algebra for Electromagnetic Theory. IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory. Wiley. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-470-94163-8...
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    Relativistic electromagnetism is a physical phenomenon explained in electromagnetic field theory due to Coulomb's law and Lorentz transformations. After...
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  • equation for the electromagnetic field in vacuum is ◻ A μ = 0 {\displaystyle \Box A^{\mu }=0} where Aμ is the electromagnetic four-potential in Lorenz gauge...
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    force — the electromagnetic force, as a consequence of relative motion between electric charges and observers. The fact that the electromagnetic field shows...
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    important role in the modern theory of classical electromagnetism. It gives formulas for how electromagnetic objects, in particular the electric and magnetic...
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    Maxwell–Faraday equation, one of the four Maxwell equations in his theory of electromagnetism. Electromagnetic induction has found many applications...
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  • used. The electromagnetic four-potential is defined to be Aa = (−φ, A), and the electromagnetic four-current ja = (−ρ, j). The electromagnetic field at...
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    space. The four-current unifies charge density (related to electricity) and current density (related to magnetism) in one electromagnetic entity. In special...
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    space, known as an electromagnetic wave. The way in which charges and currents (i.e. streams of charges) interact with the electromagnetic field is described...
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