The Schott Energy and the Reactive Energy in Electromagnetic Radiation
and Mutual Couplings
Abstract
A revised version. The main derivation is reorganized, some denotations
are changed.
In the proposed theory for analyzing the electromagnetic radiation and
electromagnetic mutual couplings in vacuum, the electromagnetic energy
associated with a source is separated into three parts: a
Coulomb-velocity energy, a radiative energy and a macroscopic Schott
energy. At the instant that the sources disappear, the Coulomb-velocity
energy disappers simultaneously; a short time later, the total
macroscopic Schott energy becomes zero, while the radiative energy keeps
propagating and the total radiative energy becomes constant. By applying
the Lienard-Wiechert potentials to a moving charge, this paper
illustrates that the macroscopic Schott energy is corresponding to the
Schott energy in the charged particle theory.