Thursday, September 17, 2015

electromagnetism - EM Fields in a Rotating Frame of Reference


I'm struggling on my approach to the problem of figuring out E and B fields in a non-relativistic way for a rotating frame of reference in the x-y plane around the z-axis. I am attempting to do this without the use of Tensors:


Consider a particle at rest with respect to the rotating frame. Since there is no velocity there is no force felt from B. Do I have to include the pseudo forces in this equation? F=ma=qE=q(E+v×B)E=E+v×B


Additionally, considering a stationary particle in the inertial frame of reference, with pseudo forces included: F=ma+mω×v+mω×v+mω×ω×x=q(E+v×B)=qE


However if I just plug in E into the second equation, B = B which seems incorrect. Looking at the non-relativistic portions of a Lorentz transformations has B = Bv×E




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