Wednesday, 5 July 2017

electromagnetism - Is magnetic field of a uniformly moving charge constant everywhere?


As far as I understand, for the field of a uniformly moving charge, curl of E is zero everywhere.


Since ×E=Bt, 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=Et , and since Et is not constant (because 2Et2 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)=kq1v2/c2(1v2sin2θ/c2)3/2ˆrr2 Then ×E=1rθkq1v2/c2(1v2sin2θ/c2)3/21r2ˆϕ0


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