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Field in Media in Uniform Translation

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Numerous electromechanical devices contain parts which move in an electromagnetic field. The motion is often a translation, as in a linear motor, and it is to a study of ponderable bodies in uniform translation that the present chapter is devoted. We shall, in fact, confine ourselves to infinite media, leaving for Chap.5 a discussion of moving objects of finite extent. Even with this restriction, several interesting applications in physics, astrophysics and electrical engineering arise. Central to the discussion of these applications is the nature of the constitutive equations in a moving medium. Minkowski first discussed this problem. Minkowski, one of Einstein’s teachers in Zürich, followed the early development of relativity with intense interest. A mathematician by education he managed, before his untimely death in 1909, to make fundamental contributions to the young discipline.

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Van Bladel, J. (1984). Field in Media in Uniform Translation. In: Relativity and Engineering. Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69198-0_4

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