• DocumentCode
    1235542
  • Title

    Electromagnetic energy and momentum conservation in pendulum experiments

  • Author

    Moyssides, P.G. ; Patrinos, C. ; Hatzikonstantinou, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2024
  • Lastpage
    2029
  • Abstract
    In a number of experiments, several researchers have argued that their experimental results are not in agreement with energy and momentum conservation in electrodynamics. In this paper, we show that the strict application of energy and momentum conservation is in complete agreement with their experiments. In this work, we introduce the local electric and magnetic fields inside the pendulum conductor, which allow us to make rigorous calculations for energy and momentum. With regard to the conservation of momentum, their experimentally measured momentum of the pendulum is 8.85 × 10-2 kg·m/s, while the value theoretically calculated by us is (8.35 ± 0.84) × 10-2 kg·m/s, a fact that verifies the standard theory.
  • Keywords
    electric fields; electrodynamics; magnetic fields; pendulums; electrodynamics; electromagnetic energy conservation; local electric field; local magnetic field; momentum conservation; pendulum experiments; Circuits; Conductors; Copper; Electrodynamics; Laboratories; Magnetic field measurement; Measurement standards; Rails; Shape; Strips;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2003.808598
  • Filename
    1211177