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The so-called Lorenz gauge, in SI units, takes the form, ∇·A + (1/c2)∂ψ/∂t = 0, where A is the magnetic vector potential and ψ is the electrostatic scalar potential. But what has it got to do with...
30 December 2023 2,119 12 View
A horn antenna, usually used in connection with the UHF and microwave frequency range, is a transducer which operates on the same principle as the acoustical horn. Can we connect such antennae...
05 August 2022 728 100 View
According to the attached paper, dated 1977, in the American Journal of Physics, by Professor P.D. Gupta of Purdue University, a Lorentz transformation analysis of the longitudinal Doppler shift...
28 September 2020 7,583 32 View
There are many applications of electric circuit theory where the circuit is closed by connecting a wire to Earth. Does anybody have any comments to make on the physical nature of electric current...
05 September 2018 6,027 22 View
I don't doubt that astronomers have accurately measured the perihelion advance of the planet Mercury. But in order to claim that it is not as would be expected under Newtonian law, we would need...
07 June 2018 4,091 5 View
Relativistic mass is a velocity dependent mass, and if we use it in Newton's second law of motion in relation to a given force, it means that as the velocity increases due to acceleration, the...
01 January 1970 10,085 58 View
The original Latin version of Newton's three laws of motion is attached. The English translation can be found at page 83 in this link,...
01 January 1970 7,252 1 View
It's generally believed that the direction of electric current is merely a matter of convention and that there is no specific significance to the direction of electron flow in a metal conducting...
01 January 1970 8,661 15 View
In his 1907 article, "Man's Greatest Achievement", Tesla equates the imperceptible primary substance with the luminiferous aether. It is now suggested that the luminiferous medium, which is the...
01 January 1970 7,020 17 View
In the third equation in the 27th September 1905 addendum to Einstein's main paper, https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf Einstein adds the two halves of the transformed...
01 January 1970 4,207 55 View
Is it just a serious case of terminological confusion, or is the nomenclature actually correct? Regarding the Cantalloc Aqueducts near Nazca in Peru, I see those spiral structures as "Air Wells"...
01 January 1970 740 0 View
In a closed AC circuit, while the electrons on each limb return during each half cycle, the power doesn't return. Net power is fed into the circuit during each half cycle. In the case of single...
01 January 1970 2,609 7 View
