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Radiation Reaction as a Non-conservative Force

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arxiv 1601.02102 v2 pith:5EJ6JH4A submitted 2016-01-09 physics.class-ph

Radiation Reaction as a Non-conservative Force

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keywords radiationnon-conservativereactionchargedfieldforceinteractingparticle
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We study a system of a finite size charged particle interacting with radiation field by exploiting the Hamilton's principle for non-conservative system introduced recently by Galley[1]. The said formulation leads to the equation of motion of the charged particle that turns out to be the same as obtained by Jackson[3]. We show that radiation reaction stems from the non-conservative piece of the effective Lagrangian. We notice that a charge interacting with radiation field modeled as heat bath affords a way to justify that radiation reaction is a non-conservative force. The topic is suitable for graduate courses on advanced electrodynamics and classical theory of fields.

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