Overview
- Addresses and even solves open questions in General Relativity
- Reviews wide range of partly conflicting literature
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 158)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
There has been a long debate about whether uniformly accelerated charges should radiate electromagnetic energy and how one should describe their worldline through a flat spacetime, i.e., whether the Lorentz-Dirac equation is right. There are related questions in curved spacetimes, e.g., do different varieties of equivalence principle apply to charged particles, and can a static charge in a static spacetime radiate electromagnetic energy? The problems with the LD equation in flat spacetime are spelt out in some detail here, and its extension to curved spacetime is discussed. Different equivalence principles are compared and some vindicated. The key papers are discussed in detail and many of their conclusions are significantly revised by the present solution.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles
Book Subtitle: A Threat to the Equivalence Principle
Authors: Stephen N. Lyle
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68477-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-68469-5Published: 10 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08802-5Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68477-0Published: 22 July 2008
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 361
Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical Electrodynamics