id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qsnrzsl62va55bqt65tcflbb4a Mathias Frisch Conceptual Problems in Classical Electrodynamics* 2008 24 .pdf application/pdf 5803 298 55 own field, results in a formal inconsistency, and I argued that attempts to include the selffield lead to numerous conceptual problems. interaction of a charged particle with its own electromagnetic field into the theory. standard equations used to model particle-field interactions simply ignore self-interactions. classical interactions between discrete charged particles and electromagnetic fields fall into motions of charges in the external fields are calculated (Muller's "B problems"). models of the second kind treat charged particles as being influenced by external fields of motion'—is inconsistent with the Maxwell equations and the standard principle of energymomentum conservation (which together imply that accelerated charges radiate energy).2 problems arises when one tries to develop a classical theory of charged particles interacting identical: both theories have classical microscopic charged particles and electromagnetic The second approach to the self-energy problem models charged particles as extended the problem of arriving at a fully relativistic classical particle-field theory.14 ./cache/work_qsnrzsl62va55bqt65tcflbb4a.pdf ./txt/work_qsnrzsl62va55bqt65tcflbb4a.txt