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Electromagnetic stress-energy tensor

For metric signature

(-, +, +, +)

,

T^{μν} = \frac{1}{μ _{0}} (F^{μ ρ} F^{ν}_{ρ} - \frac{1}{4} η^{μν} F^{ρ σ} F_{ρ σ}) .

In particular,

T^{00} = \frac{1}{2} (ϵ_{0} E^{2} + B^{2} / μ_{0})

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