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Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

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Chapter 6: Radiation Reaction<br />

Section 6.1: Introduction<br />

Chapter 6 obtains the radiation reaction equations of motion for a pointlike<br />

particle carrying electric charge and electric and magnetic dipole moments.<br />

Section 6.2: Previous analyses<br />

The previous attacks on this problem by Bhabha and Corben, and Barut and<br />

Unal, are briefly reviewed.<br />

Section 6.3: Infinitesimal rigid bodies<br />

Various issues arising when the relativistically rigid bodies of Chapter 3 are<br />

of infinitesimal size are described.<br />

Section 6.4: The sum and difference variables<br />

The sum and difference constituent variables are introduced, and the necessary<br />

mathematical groundwork for their use developed.<br />

Section 6.5: Retarded kinematical quantities<br />

The kinematical quantities of the generating constituents are evaluated at<br />

their respective retarded times, and from these quantites the self-fields are<br />

computed.<br />

Section 6.6: Divergence of the point particle fields<br />

The three-divergences of the fields of a point particle in arbitrary motion<br />

are evaluated, around the worldline of the particle, with particular attention<br />

given to the electromagnetic moment source terms implied by these divergences<br />

via the Maxwell equations.<br />

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