{"id":306275,"date":"2016-10-31T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=382badc85556fa209494ec3e7a79565d"},"modified":"2016-10-31T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"are-maxwells-equations-lorentz-covariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=306275","title":{"rendered":"Are Maxwell&#8217;s equations Lorentz-covariant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is stated in many textbooks that Maxwell&#8217;s equations are manifestly covariant when written down<br \/>\nin tensorial form. We recall that tensorial form of Maxwell&#8217;s equations does not secure their<br \/>\ntensorial contents ; they become covariant by postulating certain transformation properties of field<br \/>\nfunctions. That fact should be stressed when teaching about the covariance of Maxwell&#8217;s equations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is stated in many textbooks that Maxwell&#8217;s equations are manifestly covariant when written down<br \/>\nin tensorial form. We recall that tensorial form of Maxwell&#8217;s equations does not secure their<br \/>\ntensorial contents ; they become covariant by postulating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}