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| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:42 | history | edited | user87745 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:34 | comment | added | user87745 | @JahanClaes No. I am not saying that the conservation of momentum is violated. I am just saying that the momentum of the system of charges (which are simply particles) increases on their own because the mutual forces are not equal and opposite. Of course, the reason this happens is that the fields take away the corresponding momentum and the net momentum of the world is conserved (even locally). | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:31 | comment | added | Jahan Claes | @Dvij but that's discounting the momentum of the EM field, yes? | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:29 | comment | added | user87745 | @JahanClaes Many electrodynamic systems have this characteristic. For the simplest case, consider two charges. Take the velocity of one of them towards the other and that of the second perpendicular to the line joining two charges. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:27 | comment | added | Swami | Indeed, what are those systems? | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:26 | comment | added | Jahan Claes | What are those systems? | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:25 | history | answered | user87745 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |