George V. Skrotskii (January 11, 1915 – July 13, 1992) was a Russian
physicist.
Skrotskii realized that
electromagnetic field
An electromagnetic field (also EM field or EMF) is a classical (i.e. non-quantum) field produced by (stationary or moving) electric charges. It is the field described by classical electrodynamics (a classical field theory) and is the classical c ...
equations in a
curved spacetime
Curved space often refers to a spatial geometry which is not "flat", where a flat space is described by Euclidean geometry. Curved spaces can generally be described by Riemannian geometry though some simple cases can be described in other ways. Cu ...
can be written in a non-
covariant form formally equivalent to
Maxwell's equations in a macroscopic medium in flat spacetime.
References
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A.A. Kolokolov/G.V. Skrotskii."Interference of reactive components of an electromagnetic field". ''Soviet Physics'' - Uspekhi, Vol. 35, No. 12 (1992), pp. 1089–1093.
*
G.V. Pokazaniev/G.V. Skrotskii. " The Basics of Torsion Mechanics. ''Psevdomagnetizm''. //Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk, 1979, v. 129, # 4, p. 615. (Russian)
* The gravitational effect is known as gravitational Faraday rotation or the Rytov or Skrotskii effect. Lett. 23 (1983) 235–237.
99GV Skrotskii, The influence of gravitation on the propagation of light, Sov. Phys. Doklady 2
External links
Nader HaghighipourBiography of G. V. Skrotskii
1915 births
1992 deaths
Russian physicists
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