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DR. C. V. DRYSDALE has pointed out that his formula1 can be applied to the calculation of what are usually called ‘electromagnetic forces’; and it then becomes an expression (in vector notation) for the generally accepted principle called the Biot-Savart law. But the experiments to which I referred in NATURE of August 7, 1937, have shown that the Biot-Savart law sometimes indicates only a small fraction of the actual force, and have therefore shown the serious incorrectness of the more general formula proposed by Dr. Drysdale.
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DUNTON, W. A Comprehensive Fundamental Electrical Formula. Nature 143, 601 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143601a0
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