ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA   2006, Vol.6, No.1(16)  29-35

 

PACS №:41.20.Gz, 84.30.Bv

A.K.T. Assis1 and J.A. Hernandes2

Instituto de Fìsica `Gleb Wataghin'
Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp
13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
1e-mail: assis@ifi.unicamp.br
2e-mail: jahernandes@gmail.com

Magnetic Energy and Effective Inertial Mass of the Conduction Electrons in Circuit Theory

Abstract

In this work we calculate the electrodynamic energy of conductors carrying slowly time-varying currents. We show that this energy can be quantitatively identified with the classical kinetic energy of the current-carrying electrons with effective intertial mass proportional to the self-inductance of the conductor.

 
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