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On the self-accelerating electron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. Ashauer
Affiliation:
Newnham CollegeCambridge

Extract

After solving the equations of motion of Dirac's self-accelerating electron, a physical picture of it is formed by plotting graphically the surfaces of constant scalar potential when the electron has built up a velocity close to the velocity of light.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1947

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