Original scientific paper
Einstein's light complex
Dragan Redžić
; Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, POB 368, 11001 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Janez Strnad
; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, POB 2964, 1111 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The light complex introduced by A. Einstein in his first relativity paper has the characteristics of a provisional concept and was soon abandoned. Nevertheless, it was crucial for Einstein's derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy. The discussion of various forms of the light complex strictly within Maxwell's electrodynamics leads to interesting insight.
Keywords
special relativity; electrodynamics; Lichtkomplex; history of science
Hrčak ID:
301806
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Publication date:
1.7.2004.
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