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Energy of a charged particle in Møller's tetrad theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. B. Shah
Affiliation:
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 9, India

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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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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