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and others). An example of a covariant equation is the Lorentz force equation of motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field (a generalization of Newton's second law)

where and are the mass and charge of the particle (invariant scalars); is the invariant interval (scalar); is the 4-velocity (4-vector); and is the electromagnetic field strength tensor (4-tensor).

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