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arxiv: 1303.5608 · v2 · pith:3TX3N5APnew · submitted 2013-03-15 · ⚛️ physics.class-ph

Non-relativistic limits of Maxwell's equations

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keywords equationslimitsmaxwellelectriclimitmagneticnon-relativisticsome
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In 1973, Le Bellac and Levy-Leblond (Nuovo Cimento B 14, 217-234) discovered that Maxwell's equations possess two non-relativistic Galilei-covariant limits, corresponding to E >> cB (electric limit) or E << cB (magnetic limit). Here, we provide a systematic, yet simple, derivation of these two limits based on a dimensionless form of Maxwell's equations and an expansion of the electric and magnetic fields in a power series of some small parameters. Using this procedure, all previously known results are recovered in a natural and unambiguous way. Some further extensions are also proposed.

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