Timeline for Scalar and Vector Potential
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| S Dec 29, 2016 at 6:14 | history | suggested | V.H. Belvadi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cleaned up the LaTeX code.
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| Apr 13, 2016 at 11:13 | history | edited | Tomi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improvements.
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| Apr 13, 2016 at 11:10 | comment | added | Tomi | I agree, like we add any function whose gradient is zero to the electric potential, we can add any function whose curl vanishes with no effect on B. We exploit this freedom to eliminate the divergence of A (divA=0). Therefor A does not admit a simple physical interpretation in terms of potential energy per unit charge. However, in some contexts it can be interpreted as momentum per unit charge. See M.D Semon and J.R Taylor Am .J Phys 64, 1361 (1996) where they conclude that qA can be viewed as potential momentum. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 10:10 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | No, you cannot think of the vector potential as the "momentum per unit charge stored" because the vector potential is not unique. I can add any gradient of a scalar function to it and the result is still a valid vector potential. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 10:05 | history | answered | Tomi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |