Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

1.2 What do I need to read?
If the reader wishes to find a particular result, or set of results, rumoured to
be contained within this thesis, then they should consult either the Table of
Contents, or the more detailed descriptions in the sections following this one,
to pinpoint the topic or topics of interest to them. They should also, however,
cast a glance at Appendix A, which describes the notations, conventions, etc.,
that the author has used throughout this thesis.
If, on the other hand, the reader wishes to read the entire thesis, then they
should proceed with the five non-appendical chapters following this one. Each
chapter draws on results established in the previous chapters, as a general
rule; but each may also be considered separately, if one is willing to accept
the preceding results, sight unseen. Chapters 2 and 3 review the formalism
that will be used by the author; no major new results are presented; and the
style is somewhat more didactic than that of the chapters that follow. The
major new results found by the author are presented in Chapters 4, 5 and 6,
each of which deals with one of the three problems listed in the Abstract of
this thesis.
The notations and conventions listed in Appendix A should be consulted
as and when the need arises; the material therein has been compiled and
written most carefully, to avoid ambiguity or confusion; but as a result the
style of the text is necessarily more clinical and pedantic than the discussions
contained in the other chapters of this thesis.
Material relegated to the appendices may or may not be of interest, but
in any case is not required reading. Some readers may be interested in the
computer algebra programs written by the author, whose output is contained
in Appendix G, which were used to verify and complete the algebraic considerations
of this thesis. Due to length restrictions, the corresponding ANSI C
source code files are not listed in this thesis; they are, however, contained in
digital copies of this thesis (see Section A.2.2).
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