At 10:58 PM 12/8/4, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >Horace Heffner wrote: [snip stuff for a bit] >> I showed that if pancaking is valid for an individual particle, then the >> sum of such individual pancaking effects does not cancel at all points. > >But again, the formula you started with was for a point charge in >uniform motion. [snip]
Interesting observation. True, my analysis was based on a moment in time, with an attempted (and probably wrong) instantaneous adjustment for acceleration. If the point charges were *not* to be accelerated on around the circle, but rather allowed to continue along straight line (tangential) paths, we might then expect the non-conservative field to at least momentarily exist. I have to wonder at this point if the subject non-conservative field could be produced momentarily by independent straight current segments. One thing field pancaking does show, however. The effective charge depends on the veloctiy *and* relative location of the observer. In that sense at least, charge is not always conserved. Regards, Horace Heffner
