Self-Force and Inertia
Old Light on New Ideas
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Beschreibung
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 interactions. But it is also a reminder of the many benefits of this classical understanding that are simply dropped in modern accounts of inertia. This is a book for the motivated student who feels it is useful to remember where our theories come from. There is also a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in particle physics.
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 In a way, it looks rather out of date, and it would be easy to skate over it, or even just skip it.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.
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
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Stephen Lyle
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Electromagnetic contributions to inertial mass Electromagnetism Inertia and self-force Origins of inertial mass Particle Physics Relativity general relativity relativity and charged particles
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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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