Order reductions of Lorentz - Dirac - like equations
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We discuss the phenomenon of preacceleration in the light of a method of successive approximations used to construct the physical order reduction of a large class of singular equations. A simple but illustrative physical example is analyzed to get more insight into the convergence properties of the method. Short title: LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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