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Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

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adreact of Appendix G; the expressions found there and in Chapter 6,<br />

and the author’s comments on them in Chapter 6, have been updated to<br />

reflect the resulting changes to the radiation reaction equations of motion.<br />

In fact, this additional contribution simplified the final equations of motion<br />

somewhat; and it also removed one term that was clearly unphysical, which<br />

had been causing the author serious concern. Due to this increase in physical<br />

correctness of the radiation reaction calculations, the author most definitely<br />

considers the redshift force to be physically correct; he only wishes he had<br />

obtained it earlier. However, to the author’s knowledge, this redshift force<br />

has not been obtained in the literature to date; but then again neither has<br />

the accelerative redshift factor apparently been used at all, for the purposes<br />

of electrodynamical considerations.<br />

If the radiation reaction calculations yielded a bonanza with the redshift<br />

force, the published paper [65] listed in Appendix F did not fare quite so well.<br />

The derivation therein is now incomplete; and therefore the final “uncoupled”<br />

equations of motion, listed there, are incorrect. The reason for the author<br />

failing to obtain the redshift force from the manifestly covariant analysis<br />

presented there will be discussed in somewhat more detail in Section 4.3.4;<br />

basically, the author inappropriately used the covariant proper-time derivative,<br />

rather than the partial proper-time derivative, on one occasion: the<br />

difference between the two leads, somewhat remarkably, to the extra redshift<br />

force derived above!<br />

We now turn to the relativistically rigorous derivation of the torque equation<br />

of motion, in the rest frame. In this case, we note that the quantity z<br />

that is crossed into the force expression to obtain the “moment-arm” torque<br />

is in fact of order ε, so, as with the power equation of motion, there are no<br />

terms of order ε −1 remaining that could couple to the second terms in the<br />

redshift factors (4.13). Hence the rest-frame torque expression is still that<br />

given by (4.11)<br />

N| v=0<br />

= d×E. (4.15)<br />

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