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Self-Force and Inertia

Old Light on New Ideas

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Lyle

    1. Alzen, France

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  • An excursion into the classical origins of modern particle theories
  • Includes overview of state-of-the-art in particle physics
  • Will motivate students and researchers to reconsider issues of inertia
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 796)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction and Guide

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 1-3

  3. Some Notions of Electromagnetism

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 5-29

  4. Electromagnetic Mass

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 31-46

  5. A Brief Excursion into General Relativity

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 47-72

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

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 73-91

  7. Self-Force for Transverse Linear Acceleration

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 93-113

  8. Self-Force for Axial Linear Acceleration

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 115-133

  9. Self-Force for Transverse Rotational Motion

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 135-155

  10. Self-Force for Longitudinal Rotational Motion

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 157-177

  11. Summary of Results

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 179-181

  12. Reconciling Energy- and Momentum-Derived EM Masses

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 183-262

  13. Rigidity in Relativity

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 263-311

  14. Mass in Elementary Particle Physics

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 313-378

  15. Summary and Conclusion

    • Stephen N. Lyle
    Pages 379-396

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 1-9
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About this book

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 In a way, it looks rather out of date, and it would be easy to skate over it, or even just skip it.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.

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“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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  • Alzen, France

    Stephen Lyle

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