Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

sults to changes in the rigid body definition was mysterious, the fact that
the computer algebra program did indeed return to the same answer—by a
somewhat circuitous path—indicated to the author that the program was,
at the least, robust.
Of course, the program still relies on the author’s assumptions; no amount
of robustness would counter the effects of an erroneous formulation. The
reader is left to decide for themselves if the author’s framework is justifiable.
G.2.2
kinemats: Kinematical quantities
Following the successful creation of most of the libraries required for the
program radreact, the author realised that there would be little extra
overhead involved in using those same libraries to verify the other, quite
complicated algebraic results obtained prior to the attack on the radiation
reaction problem. In particular, there were numerous kinematical identities
that had been computed and extensively cross-checked by the author, on
paper, that were at the time collected together into an appendix titled “Kinematical
Quantities”; and there were the author’s greatly simplified explicit
expressions for the retarded dipole fields, given (then, as now) in Chapter 5.
Thus, the program kinemats was written to verify the kinematical results
collected in the appendix “Kinematical Quantities”. It was found that all
results were (as expected) correct.
However, when the program radreact was nearing completion, it was
found that extra kinematical results were required, over and above those
originally computed. It was at this stage found most time-efficient to compute
these using the (by now fully debugged) program kinemats, bypassing a
manual evaluation altogether.
Faced with the task of grafting these new results into the existing separate
appendix, the author realised that it it would be simpler to scrap the original
appendix altogether, and instead use the output of kinemats as the sole
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