Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles A Threat to the Equivalence Principle /

• Main Author: Lyle, Stephen N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 158
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• A Doubt about the Equivalence Principle
• From Minkowski Spacetime to General Relativity
• Gravity as a Force in Special Relativity
• Applying the Strong Equivalence Principle
• The Debate Continues
• A More Detailed Radiation Calculation
• Defining the Radiation from a Uniformly Accelerating Charge
• Energy Conservation for a Uniformly Accelerated Charge
• The Threat to the Equivalence Principle According to Fulton and Rohrlich
• Different Predictions of Special Relativity and General Relativity
• Derivation of the Lorentz–Dirac Equation
• Extending the Lorentz–Dirac Equation to Curved Spacetime
• Static Charge in a Static Spacetime
• A Radiation Detector
• The Definitive Mathematical Analysis
• Interpretation of Physical Quantities in General Relativity
• Charged Rocket
• Summary
• Conclusion.