Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Heger Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Annotated version of SRT Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:40:01 +0200 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <281fd598-47ff-48dc-9083-d092f3deb990n@googlegroups.com> <2bdf54d6-0e96-4d0f-90fc-5a07a87810b4n@googlegroups.com> <6ca88e7e-8ad2-4b05-a152-c519063dec5dn@googlegroups.com> <44d26ee9-6af6-46d7-bfa0-487493f14570n@googlegroups.com> <5b55ae6d-ce63-43f4-82f3-ebbdde68022cn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SXd/q620HE3T8bHlwuSHhw92wxVzl96WAMfGvFWh1WtRlVB2VY Cancel-Lock: sha1:TmT2hwc1V433RglYwEofEQ31c4s= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:582012 Am 05.04.2022 um 08:46 schrieb Michael Moroney: > On 4/5/2022 2:25 AM, Thomas Heger wrote: > >> Now the same units 'dyne' are not appropriate for electrical fields of >> different kind, because the dyne is 'not electric'. >> >> The units simply ignore this different origins of the fields and their >> different nature. > > The units of the fields are not force but force per unit charge. Sure, because the number of units mean dimensionless numbers and 'inherit' the units from the corresponding coordinate system. That system is now 'normed' to provide the appropriate units and located somewhere. Now we attatch a coordinate system to an electron and norm it with V/m, while the electrons position vector is normed with length units in reference to a certain coordinate system which provides positions. Position vectors have the form (x,y,z) and electric field-strength vectors the form (X,Y,Z) and magnetic field-strength vectors the form (L, M, N). The coordinate systems of the fields are 'half-normed', because they contain already the length units from the position system, but not the units for field strength. A vector component is now e.g. a postion along the x-axis (x, 0, 0), which is also a vector. For the x-component of the electric field-strength of an electron we have (X, 0, 0). x, y, z, L, M, N, Y, X and Z are dimensionless numbers, because the coordinate system provides the units. Since you can add dimensionless numbers, you could add N and Y. But still such an operation has to make sense. TH