most citedTrouble with the Lorentz law of force: Incompatibility with special relativity and momentum conservation

126 citations · 517 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics201236 cited

Comment on "Observation of a push force on the end face of a nanometer silica filament exerted by outgoing light," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 243601 (2008)

Masud Mansuripur

In a recent paper, W. She, J. Yu and R. Feng reported the slight deformations observed upon transmission of a light pulse through a fairly short length of a silica glass nano-fiber…

physics.optics201223 cited

Nature of Electric and Magnetic Dipoles Gleaned from the Poynting Theorem and the Lorentz Force Law of Classical Electrodynamics

Masud Mansuripur

Starting with the most general form of Maxwell's macroscopic equations in which the free charge and free current densities, rho_free and J_free, as well as the densities of polariz…

physics.optics2012119 cited

Resolution of the Abraham-Minkowski Controversy

Masud Mansuripur

The momentum of light inside ponderable media has an electromagnetic part and a mechanical part. The local and instantaneous density of the electromagnetic part of the momentum is…

physics.optics20123 cited

What is wrong with the interpretation of recent nano-filament experiments?

Masud Mansuripur, Armis R. Zakharian

In a recent paper, W. She, J. Yu and R. Feng reported the slight deformations observed upon transmission of a light pulse through a short length of a silica glass nano-filament. Re…

physics.optics201230 cited

Theoretical analysis of the force on the end face of a nano-filament exerted by an outgoing light pulse

Masud Mansuripur, Armis R. Zakharian

The slight deformations observed upon transmission of a light pulse through a short length of a silica glass nano-filament offer the possibility of determining the momentum of ligh…

physics.optics20126 cited

Generalized Lorentz law and the force of radiation on magnetic dielectrics

Masud Mansuripur

The macroscopic equations of Maxwell combined with a generalized form of the Lorentz law are a complete and consistent set; not only are these five equations fully compatible with…