Timeline for electric field of a static charge very far away and basic question about electromagnetic waves
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 4:12 | comment | added | akhmeteli | @fibo11235 : I guess so, if the charge at rest was brought to rest recently, so there was not enough time for the Coulomb field to settle at a distant location. | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 3:23 | comment | added | anna v | Static charges only feel the basic electric potential and the force between them is this. The mass of the charged particle will be interacting with the masses in its region, so there is another force acting, but not on the charge. | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 2:26 | comment | added | fibo11235 | Ok. So it is possible for someone to see a charge at rest enact a force other than q1q2/r^2 radially on another charge which is also at rest in that frame? | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 2:21 | history | answered | akhmeteli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |