{"id":2829,"date":"2014-03-29T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2014-04-01T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T10:27:47","slug":"electrodynamics-and-einsteins-first-paper-on-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/2014\/03\/29\/electrodynamics-and-einsteins-first-paper-on-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrodynamics and Einstein&#8217;s first paper on relativity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know probably know, Albert Einstein&#8217;s initial inspiration for his theory of relativity stemmed from his considerations of Maxwell&#8217;s equations. The connection is so important that the first paper he published on relativity was titled &#8220;<i>On the electrodynamics of moving bodies (1905).&#8221;<\/i> In particular he considered the relative motion of a magnet and a conductor. In the conductor&#8217;s rest frame the interaction between the two is electric, yet in the magnet&#8217;s frame they interact magnetically. I can model this problem very easily and then go about showing how Einstein resolved the seemingly paradoxical relativistic nature of classical electrodynamics. From there I can continue into discussing the field transformations and showing how these effect real life problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know probably know, Albert Einstein&#8217;s initial inspiration for his theory of relativity stemmed from his considerations of Maxwell&#8217;s equations. The connection is so important that the first paper he published on relativity was titled &#8220;On the electrodynamics of moving bodies (1905).&#8221; In particular he considered the relative motion of a magnet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101,54061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-em","category-karl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}