Note on the complete scheme of electrodynamic equations of a moving material medium, and on electrostriction

Abstract

This note forms a supplement to my third memoir on the “Dynamic Theory of the Æther,” to the sections of which the references made. It is intended in the first place to express with full generality electrodynamic equations of a material medium moving in any manner, thus completing the scheme which has been already developed subject to simplifying restrictions in the memoirs referred to obtain a definite and consistent theoretical basis it was necessary contemplate the material system as made up of discrete molecules, involving in their constitutions orbital systems of electrons, and having through the practically stagnant æther.