Group: sci.physics.electromag
From: blackhead
Date: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: Electromagnetic radiation and the mechanical reactions arising from it.

On Oct 3, 5:27 pm, see....@ (Martin Ouwehand) wrote:
> Dans l'article < ...@ >,
> blackhead =E9crit:
>
> ] Does anyone know if there is a book with the Lienard and Wiechert
> ] papers on the potentials of a moving charge in it?
>
> [...]
>
> ] E. Wiechert, Archives N=E9land (2) 5 459 (1900).
> this article was republished in "Annalen der Physik" (4, 667-689, 1901)
> and it is available online:
>
> /ark:/12148/Document/ConsulterElementNum?O=3DNUMM-.=
.=2E

Thanks. For anyone interested, Schott's famous book is available
online:

Electromagnetic radiation and the mechanical reactions arising from
it, being an Adams Prize Essay in the University of Cambridge (1912)

/details/electromagneticr00schouoft

He derives the Lienard-Wiechart fields starting on page 22 using what
appears to be a Fourier transform method which I've never seen done in
modern textbooks.



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