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
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