Self-Force and Inertia Old Light on New Ideas /

• Main Author: Lyle, Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 796
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Nuclear physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

The vast majority of particles in particle physics are today considered to be bound states of other particles. All forms of binding energy and kinetic energy in such a state have to be included in its inertial mass. This book revives the classical explanation for this in the case of electromagnetic...