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An electric charge at rest gives rise to an electric field, a moving charge causes additionally a magnetic field, and an oscillating charge causes electromagnetic waves. How can one describe this theoretically and achieve a better understanding through the theory of relativity? First of all we shall treat an individual point charge in a vacuum, then the behaviour of matter, and finally Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. We are working here with a system of units in which the electric field E and the magnetic field B have the same units, since relativistically they are only the various components of an antisymmetric 4 × 4 field tensor.
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Stauffer, D., Stanley, H.E. (1996). Electricity and Magnetism. In: From Newton to Mandelbrot. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86780-4_2
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