Answer to Question #52502 in Electricity and Magnetism for priyam

Question

is electric field of a static charge different from the electric field due to a moving charge??
we know that electric field transmit energy form one point to another ,suppose it has energy 'E' ,but when the same charge is moving with a velocity 'V' it has electric field as well as magnetic field . so in order to conversed energy magnitude of electric field should decrease and as a result charge of the particle should decrease!!!
please tell am i right or wrong??? and please explain ???

Answer 1

Iselectric field of a static charge different from the electric field due to a moving charge?? Yes, it is.

Total electromagnetic energy is conserved.Thus, when particle moves with non-zero velocity have magnitude of electric field less than static particle. But charge of the particle is constant. It is known that electric field of charged particle depends not only magnitude of charge but on its velocity too.

You can read more about it in physics chapter Electrodynamics.