Connecting Blackbody Radiation, Relativity, and Discrete Charge in Classical Electrodynamics

Connecting Blackbody Radiation, Relativity, and Discrete Charge in Classical Electrodynamics

It is suggested that an understanding of blackbody radiation within classical physics requires the presence of classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation, the restriction to relativistic (Coulomb) scattering systems, and the use of discrete charge. The contrasting scaling properties of nonrelativistic classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics are noted, and it is emphasized that the...

Comment on ‘Self-dressing and radiation reaction in classical electrodynamics’

Using the canonical formalism, Compagno and Persico [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35 (2002) 3629–45] have calculated the ‘radiation-reaction’ force on a uniform spherical charge moving rigidly, slowly and slightly from a point where the transverse electric field is assumed to vanish. This force is shown to result in the same time-averaged self-force as that which has been obtained by different means ...

Computational Blackbody Radiation

Maxwell’s equations represent a culmination of classical mathematical physics by offering a compact mathematical formulation of all of electromagnetics including the propagation of light and radiation, as electromagnetic waves. But like in a Greek tragedy, the success of Maxwell’s equations prepared for the collapse of classical mathematical physics and the rise of modern physics based on a con...

Space - time transformation properties of inter - charge forces and dipole radiation : Breakdown of the classical field concept in relativistic electrodynamics

A detailed study is made of the space-time transformation properties of inter-charge forces and the associated electric and magnetic force fields, both in classical electromagnetism and in a recently developed relativistic classical electrodynamical theory. Important differences are found and serious errors are found in the traditional treatment of special-relativistic effects in classical elec...

Classical Electrodynamics