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Energy of a charged particle in Møller's tetrad theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
Energy of the exterior and the interior fields of a particle, charged or otherwise, embedded in an empty space is calculated, using Møller's tetrad formulation of the energy-momentum complex in general relativity. It is found that the exterior field contains positive gravitational energy, and in addition, the electromagnetic energy if the particle is a charged one and that the sum total of the energies of the interior and the exterior fields is equivalent to the Newtonian mass of the particle.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 1157 - 1166
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967
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