Electrodynamics

Abstract

Chapters 2 and 3 have shown that electrostatic and magnetostatic problems can be treated completely independent of each other. Certain formal analogies, though, allow one to apply to a large extent identical calculation techniques to solve the basic problems, but that does not lead to any direct dependency. This will now change when we consider time-dependent phenomena, i.e. the decoupling of electric and magnetic fields ha to be set aside. Therefore one should speak from now on of electromagnetic fields rather than of electric and magnetic fields, separately. The deep understanding of the close correlation between electric and magnetic fields will be provided in the framework of the theory of relativity.