6.641 | Spring 2005 | Graduate

Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion

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Lecture 15: Force Densities, Stress Tensors, and Forces

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Lecture notes on force densities, stress tensors, forces, the Maxwell stress tensor, air-gap magnetic machines, electrostatic machines, derivation of the Korteweg-Helmholtz force density for incompressible media from the quasistatic Poynting’s theorem, and compressible media.

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Lecture 15: Force Densities, Stress Tensors, and Forces

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