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The fields of a moving point charge: a new derivation from Jefimenko's equations

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Published 3 March 2004 • 2004 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Omer Dushek and Sergiy V Kuzmin 2004 Eur. J. Phys. 25 343 DOI 10.1088/0143-0807/25/3/001

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1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada

2 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada

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  1. Received 23 July 2003
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Abstract

We give a derivation for the fields of a moving point charge from Jefimenko's equations without the usual cumbersome differentiation of retarded quantities.

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