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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 1 34E Solution by
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Use rationalized electromagnetic units with and electrostatic constant . The four-potential transforms by the same matrix as the coordinates:Write and . Gauss's law for the line at rest gives , . A suitable potential is , . The inverse Lorentz transformation gives , . The fields from and are thereforeThe sign agrees with a line charge moving in the positive direction: its density is and its current . In SI units insert in the electric expressions and replace by .
The two invariants check explicitly:For , the electric field differs from the static field only at order , while the magnetic field is of order and is the field of the moving line current. These fields are evaluated off the charged axis.
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