In electromagnetism, the electromagnetic tensor or electromagnetic field tensor (sometimes called the field strength tensor, Faraday tensor or Maxwell...
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the electromagnetic stress–energy tensor is the contribution to the stress–energy tensor due to the electromagnetic field. The stress–energy tensor describes...
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stress tensor (named after James Clerk Maxwell) is a symmetric second-order tensor in three dimensions that is used in classical electromagnetism to represent...
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An electromagnetic four-potential is a relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric...
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The electromagnetic tensor is the combination of the electric and magnetic fields into a covariant antisymmetric tensor whose entries are...
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the next. Another covariant electromagnetic object is the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor, a covariant rank-2 tensor which includes the Poynting...
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(electromagnetic tensor, Maxwell tensor, permittivity, magnetic susceptibility, ...), and general relativity (stress–energy tensor, curvature tensor,...
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rewritten in term of four-current (instead of charge) and a single electromagnetic tensor that represents the combined field ( F μ ν {\displaystyle F^{\mu...
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stress-energy tensor The stress–energy tensor, sometimes called the stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity...
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In theoretical particle physics, the gluon field strength tensor is a second order tensor field characterizing the gluon interaction between quarks. The...
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Ricci calculus (redirect from Tensor calculus)
notation and manipulation for tensors and tensor fields on a differentiable manifold, with or without a metric tensor or connection. It is also the modern...
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Maxwell's equations (redirect from Laws of electromagnetism)
one formalism. In the tensor calculus formulation, the electromagnetic tensor Fαβ is an antisymmetric covariant order 2 tensor; the four-potential, Aα...
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space, known as an electromagnetic wave. The way in which charges and currents (i.e. streams of charges) interact with the electromagnetic field is described...
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tensor is antisymmetric with respect to its first three indices. If a tensor changes sign under exchange of each pair of its indices, then the tensor...
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various mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field that are used in the study of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental interactions...
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In mathematics and physics, a tensor field is a function assigning a tensor to each point of a region of a mathematical space (typically a Euclidean space...
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Four-gradient (section As a way to define the Faraday electromagnetic tensor and derive the Maxwell equations)
In GR, one must use the more general metric tensor g α β {\displaystyle g^{\alpha \beta }} and the tensor covariant derivative ∇ μ = ; μ {\displaystyle...
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as the basis of his quantitative electromagnetic theory. In Maxwell's model, the time varying aspect of electromagnetic induction is expressed as a differential...
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Lorentz force (category Electromagnetism)
specifically in electromagnetism, the Lorentz force law is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields. The...
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fields into what is known as the electromagnetic tensor F μ ν {\displaystyle F_{\mu \nu }} . We define this tensor as F μ ν = ∂ μ A ν − ∂ ν A μ {\displaystyle...
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term in the Einstein field equations, the electromagnetic stress–energy tensor is a covariant symmetric tensor T μ ν = − 1 μ 0 ( F μ α g α β F β ν − 1 4...
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In electromagnetism and applications, an inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation, or nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation, is one of a set...
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Electricity (section Electromagnetic wave)
other is always induced.: 696–700 These variations are an electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves were analysed theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell...
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The history of electromagnetic theory begins with ancient measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning. People then had little...
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Relativistic electromagnetism is a physical phenomenon explained in electromagnetic field theory due to Coulomb's law and Lorentz transformations. After...
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For instance, consider the (0, 2)-tensor field X = Xij ei ⊗ ej. Raising the second index, we get the (1, 1)-tensor field X ♯ = g j k X i j e i ⊗ e k ...
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Biot–Savart law (category Electromagnetism)
deriving the Biot–Savart law include: 1) Lorentz transformation of the electromagnetic tensor components from a moving frame of reference, where there is only...
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electromagnetic stress–energy tensor is built from the electromagnetic tensor. Like the electromagnetic stress–energy tensor, the Bel–Robinson tensor...
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physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields. The electromagnetic force is...
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two vectors is sometimes called an elementary tensor or a decomposable tensor. The elementary tensors span V ⊗ W {\displaystyle V\otimes W} in the sense...
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