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Volume 127, Issue 5, March 2016, Pages 2887-2889
Optik

Is the Abraham electromagnetic force physical?

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Abstract

A conventional general electromagnetic force definition has been widely used to analyze radiation forces in dielectric media in published research works. However in this paper, we would like to indicate that this conventional force definition is flawed.

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