Length Contraction and Field Patterns

Most recent answer: 12/21/2014

Q:
If I have a magnet traveling near the speed of light, would it´s EM field contract following the lorentz transfromations? or in other words: does lenght contraction applies to force fields?
- john (age 22)
Santiago, Chile
A:

Yes. However, the Lorentz field transformations also cause the magnetic field to appear partly as an electric field in the other frame.

Mike W.


(published on 12/21/2014)