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Abstract


The Analysis of Maxwell's Equations: Set 2

D. E. McLennan
Year: 1988
Keywords: Maxwell's equations, work-energy theorem, momentum, kinetic energy, spin, fundamental charge density
It is argued here that all the mass in the world is of electromagnetic origin and that this must be described by the short-range fields of Set 2 Maxwell's equations. In support of this argument, the work-energy theorem and the work-potential energy theorem from mechanics are applied to classical electrodynamics. The forms so derived aid in recognizing the particle properties momentum and kinetic energy in both ?force-field? and potential forms. One disconcerting conclusion is that both mass and charge densities must always travel at c; as a consequence, a rest particle must spin.