Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Physics
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 30d
  • Issue: 1

Gravitation and electromagnetism

  • Author:
  • I.R. Durrani
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 13 to 20

Director, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Gujrat, Pakistan

Abstract

Maxwell's equations comprise both electromagnetic and gravitational fields. The transverse part of the vector potential belongs to magnetism, the longitudinal one is concerned with gravitation. The Coulomb gauge indicates that longitudinal components of the fields propagate instantaneously. The deltafunction singularity of the field of the divergence of the vector potential, referred to as the dilatation centre, represents an elementary agent of gravitation. Viewing a particle as a source or a scattering centre of the point dilatation, Newton's gravitation law can be reproduced.

Keywords

KM representation, quasi-elasticity, wave equation