THE FORCE BETWEEN CHARGES IN UNIFORM RELATIVE MOTION

According to definition, currents are charges in motion. Considering t his, both the Ampere force law between current-carrying wires and the Faraday induction law between a current-carrying wire and a conductor show that the force between moving charges must be greater than that b etween the same charges when at rest relative to each other, responsib le for all phenomena of electrodynamics. The force between charges in uniform relative motion is obtained, whose component perpendicular to the relative velocity v of the charges is larger by a factor of 1/(1 - v(2)/c(2)) than that between the same charges when at rest with respe ct to one another. Two new effects implied by this force are presented , whose empirical confirmation can in turn serve to support the theory .