Dynamics of a charged particle

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Rohrlich, Fritz ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LORENTZ FORCE;

FINITE RADIUS CHARGE DISTRIBUTIONS; LORENTZ-ABRAHAM-DIRAC EQUATIONS;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 43049131148     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.046609     Document Type: Article

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