Electricity and Mechanics

Authors

John A. Eldridge, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

When electric charges are in motion the forces between them differ from the electrostatic forces. The magnetic concept is used to take account of these non-electrostatic forces. The magnetic effect of a moving charge is relative to the electrostatic extremely small except when the velocity approaches that of light. However due to the circumstance that the electrostatic effects often, as in a wire carrying a current, practically cancel, the magnetic forces are very important. According to our present beliefs any field of force changes in an analogous manner if it be moved. There is theoretically the same excuse for speaking of a magnetic field about a moving mass as a moving charge. The difference is that in this latter case the discrepancy from the gravitostatic force is not of practical importance.

Publication Date

1926

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

33

Issue

1

First Page

253

Last Page

253

Copyright

©1926 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Eldridge, John A. (1926) "Electricity and Mechanics," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 33(1), 253-253.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol33/iss1/76