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The interpretation of the velocity parameter in Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz Force law is examined. It is shown that the predicted trajectories of electrons in an electromagnetic field depend on the state of motion of the observer. This ambiguity can be removed by assuming that the origin of the…

Rubens malt für Europa. Zur Vielfalt des frühneuzeitlichen Orientalismus, in "Das Bild des Feindes". Konstruktionen von Antagonismen und Kulturtransfer im Zeitalter der Türkenkriege. Ostmitteleuropa, Italien und Osmanisches Reich, hg. v. Eckhardt Leuschner u. Thomas Wünsch, Berlin 2013, S. 355–447.

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An example is considered (clock riddle) which demonstrates that opposite results are obtained for the length of an object depending on whether FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction (FLC) is assumed or instead the determination is based on the elapsed time required for a light pulse to traverse between its endpoints.…

Lorentz pointed out in 1899 that a relativistic space-time transformation that leaves Maxwell’s equations invariant could only be defined to within a common factor on the basis of then-existing experimental data. The present Note calls attention to the fact that Einstein’s subsequent derivation of the…