Self-Force and Inertia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction and Guide

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   Pages 1-3

3. Some Notions of Electromagnetism

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   Pages 5-29

4. Electromagnetic Mass

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   Pages 31-46

5. A Brief Excursion into General Relativity

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   Pages 47-72

6. Momentum and Energy in the EM Fields of a Charge Dumbbell

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   Pages 73-91

7. Self-Force for Transverse Linear Acceleration

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   Pages 93-113

8. Self-Force for Axial Linear Acceleration

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   Pages 115-133

9. Self-Force for Transverse Rotational Motion

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   Pages 135-155

10. Self-Force for Longitudinal Rotational Motion

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    Pages 157-177

11. Summary of Results

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    Pages 179-181

12. Reconciling Energy- and Momentum-Derived EM Masses

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    Pages 183-262

13. Rigidity in Relativity

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    Pages 263-311

14. Mass in Elementary Particle Physics

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    Pages 313-378

15. Summary and Conclusion

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    Pages 379-396

16. Back Matter

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Any student working with the celebrated Feynman Lectures will ?nd a chapter in it with the intriguing title Electromagnetic Mass [2, Chap. 28]. In a way, it looks rather out of date, and it would be easy to skate over it, or even just skip it. And yet all bound state particles we know of today have electromagnetic mass. It is just that we approach the question differently. Today we have multiplets of mesons or baryons, and we have colour symmetry, and broken ?avour symmetry, and we think about mass and energy through Hamiltonians. This book is an invitation to look at all these modern ideas with the help of an old light. Everything here is quite standard theory, in fact, classical electromagnetism for the main part. The reader would be expected to have encountered the theory of elec tromagnetism before, but there is a review of all the necessary results, and nothing sophisticated about the calculations. The reader could be any student of physics, or any physicist, but someone who wouldlike to know more about inertia, and the clas sical precursor of mass renormalisation in quantum ?eld theory. In short, someone who feels it worthwhile to ask why F= ma.

• Electromagnetic contributions to inertial mass
• Electromagnetism
• Inertia and self-force
• Origins of inertial mass
• Particle Physics
• Relativity
• general relativity
• relativity and charged particles

From the reviews:

“The reader is guided from basic concepts of electrodynamics, relativity and relativistic dynamics to consider simple models of rigid charge distributions and the problem of inertia. … This book is written very well and can be best recommended to any physicist contemplating on foundations of physics. Especially, it can be recommended to students after they have absolved the basic courses. They may read this book with pleasure and profit.” (K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1211, 2011)

“This book tackles two of the most thorny and long standing questions of classical electrodynamics … . chapters can be used to introduce the idea of radiation reaction for a starting PhD Student or even form the basis for a masters project. … I found this book enjoyable to read, touching upon many issues I had wondered about.” (Jonathan Gratus, General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 44, 2012)

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  Stephen Lyle

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