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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 2 18C Solution by
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Write the jump from side to side as . A thin rectangular loop in the static Faraday's law and a thin pillbox in Gauss's law for magnetism giveThus the tangential electric field and normal magnetic field are continuous in the plane's rest frame.
For the boost , the Lorentz transformation of electromagnetic fields givesThereforeMoreover is purely normal, so . Consequently the transformed tangential boundary condition isUsing the magnetic-field jump across a surface current, , this can equivalently be writtenThe nonzero jump is consistent with Faraday's law because the magnetic-field discontinuity itself moves through Albert's frame.
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