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Past exam of the optics and electrodynamics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Section B B4 Solution by
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Use retarded time and reserve for the large observation distance. The source velocity is nonrelativistic, . There are two errors in the original PDF that must be corrected before the radiation zone calculation: the vector-potential prefactor contains an extraneous , and the displayed magnetic radiation field has the wrong sign for the stated outward unit vector . The extra distance factor is dimensionally wrong; the magnetic sign would make the Poynting vector point inward. The following derivation uses dimensionally consistent retarded potentials and outgoing radiation.
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