, Volume 30, Issue 4, pp 537-545

Two-body problem for Weber-like interactions

Abstract

The problem of two moving bodies interacting through a Weber-like force is presented. Trajectories are obtained analytically once relativistic and quantic considerations are neglected. The main results are that in the case of limited trajectories, in general, they are not closed and in the case of open trajectories, the deflection angles are not the same for similar particles with given energies and angular momenta but opposite potentials. This last feature suggests the possibility of a direct verification of the validity of Weber's law of force for electromagnetic interactions.

Departamento de Eletrônica Quântica/Grupo de Plasmas (on leave of absence from Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina).