As far as I understand, for the field of a uniformly moving charge, curl of E is zero everywhere.
Since ∇×E=−∂B∂t, magnetic field should be constant in every point in space.
This sounds wrong, since B is supposed to fall off proportionally to r2, and r is changing in time for a moving charge. What is wrong with this reasoning?
Even worse, ∇×B=∂E∂t , and since ∂E∂t is not constant (because ∂2E∂t2 is not zero), curl of B keeps changing.
But how can ∇×B keep changing if B itself stays the same?
Answer
For example, consider at t=0 the point charge be at the origin and moving in the z direction with velocity v. The electric field at this moment is E(r)=kq1−v2/c2(1−v2sin2θ/c2)3/2ˆrr2 Then ∇×E=−1r∂∂θkq1−v2/c2(1−v2sin2θ/c2)3/21r2ˆϕ≠0
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