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Weber electrodynamics is an alternative to Maxwell electrodynamics developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber. In this theory, Coulomb's Law becomes velocity dependent. The theory is widely rejected and ignored by contemporary physicists, and is not even mentioned in mainstream textbooks on classical electromagnetism. ==Mathematical Description== According to Weber electrodynamics, the force (F) acting simultaneously on point charges and , is given by where is the vector connecting and , the dots over denote time derivatives and is the speed of light. In the limit that speeds and accelerations are small (i.e. ), this reduces to the usual Coulomb's law. This can be derived from the potential energy This can be contrasted with the approximate potential energy from Maxwellian electrodynamics (where and are the velocities of and , respectively):〔 (This only includes terms up to order and therefore neglects relativistic and retardation effects; see Darwin Lagrangian.) Using these expressions, the regular form of Ampere's law and Faraday's law can be derived. Importantly, this theory does not predict an expression like the Biot–Savart law and testing differences between Ampere's law and the Biot–Savart law is one way to test Weber electrodynamics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weber electrodynamics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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