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Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Response to Critics
Masud Mansuripur
In a recent paper [arXiv:1205.0096], we questioned the validity of the Lorentz law of force in the presence of material media that contain electric and/or magnetic dipoles. A numbe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…