If Maxwell had worked between Ampère and Faraday: An historical fable with a pedagogical moral
作者:
Max Jammer,
John Stachel,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 48,
issue 1
页码: 5-7
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1980
DOI:10.1119/1.12239
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
If one drops the Faraday induction term from Maxwell’s equations, they become exactly Galilei invariant. This suggests that if Maxwell had worked between Ampère and Faraday, he could have developed this Galilei‐invariant electromagnetic theory so that Faraday’s discovery would have confronted physicists with the dilemma: give up the Galileian relativity principle for electromagnetism (ether hypothesis), or modify it (special relativity). This suggests a new pedagogical approach to electromagnetic theory, in which the displacement current and the Galileian relativity principle are introduced before the induction term is discussed.
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