Thought experiments in electromagnetic theory and the ordinary Hall effect

Thought experiments are effective tools of theoretical physics, which led to the discovery of many useful ideas and relations; yet they also give rise to many paradoxes. A problem investigated exclusively by means of thought experiments, is, e.g., the problem of hidden momentum, concerning the conversion of the electromagnetic momentum into a momentum of non-electromagnetic nature. In this paper it was shown that the ordinary Hall effect is a good candidate for experimentally treatable phenomenon operating in static electromagnetic fields, which have a potential effectively discriminate controversies in hidden momentum problem.

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Ordinary Hall effect, anew interpreted in terms of Poynting vector flow (S_H).