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Volume 13: Pages 613-615, 2000

Electric Field in the Coulomb Gauge

A. Hirose

Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, 116 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2 Canada

In the Coulomb gauge, the longitudinal electric field is instantaneous (nonretarded). Its cancellation by a part in the transverse electric field is demonstrated using a simple operator method.

Keywords: Coulomb gauge, retarded and nonretarded fields, longitudinal and transverse fields

Received: June 8, 2000; Published online: December 15, 2008