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Using a simple but quantitative example and requiring the conservation of total angular momentum, we have shown that Minkowski’s D×B/4πc cannot be accepted and that there is no inconsistency to accept Abraham’s E×H/4πc, as the general expression for the electromagnetic field momentum density in a stationary nonmagnetic medium.
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H. M. Lai (1980) studied this question.
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