Resource Letter EM-1: Electromagnetic Momentum

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This Resource Letter surveys the literature on momentum in electromagnetic fields, including the general theory, the relation between electromagnetic momentum and vector potential, “hidden” momentum, the 4/3 problem for electromagnetic mass, and the Abraham–Minkowski controversy regarding the field momentum in polarizable and magnetizable media.

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Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics Relativity and Gravitational Theory Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

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Published in: American Journal of Physics

Volume 80, Issue 1, pp. 7-18

DOI: 10.1119/1.3641979

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Resource Letter EM-1: Electromagnetic Momentum

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