# Linked Questions

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### Do accelerated charges radiate or not? [duplicate]

This questions has been asked all over the net (here included) but I can't find a satisfactory answer or discussion. Some say it does not radiate if the acceleration is caused by a uniform gravity ...
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### EM radiation explanation [duplicate]

Why is it so that a charged particle when accelerated radiates energy? I tried to think if it might be violating the law of conservation of energy but the energy transferred by the external agent may ...
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### Since the Earth accelerates, does a stationary charge on Earth produce EM waves? [duplicate]

Since the Earth is revolving around the Sun, therefore it is accelerating. This implies that any stationary charge on earth is also accelerating. However, I have never heard anyone saying anything ...
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### Zero radiation resistance for constant acceleration? [duplicate]

I was just reading chapters from The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1 about antennas and radiation, and I'm confused about the so-called "radiation resistance" experienced when driving an ...
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### Does a charged particle accelerating in a gravitational field radiate?

A charged particle undergoing an acceleration radiates photons. Let's consider a charge in a freely falling frame of reference. In such a frame, the local gravitational field is necessarily zero, ...
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### Influence of charged particle's own electric field on itself

I read this in my textbook: A charged particle or object is not affected by its own electric field. Since I find this completely unintuitive and my mind is yelling "wrong! wrong! how could a particle ...
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### Charged particle as observed from an inertial and a non-inertial frame of reference

A charged particle fixed to a frame $S^\prime$ is accelerating w.r.t an inertial frame $S$. For an observer A in the $S$ frame, the charged particle is accelerating (being attached to frame $S^\prime$)...
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### a priori validity of $W=\int Fdx$ in relativity?

There are lots of different ways of arriving at the relativistic relations involving mass, energy, and momentum such as $E=mc^2$ and $m^2=E^2-p^2$ (the latter with $c=1$). One that I've seen in some ...
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### Newton's first law: is his concept of (force of ) inertia still useful and used?

The force of inertia is the property common to all bodies that remain in their state, either at rest or in motion, unless some external cause is introduced to make them alter this state. That is ...
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### Can there be acceleration without velocity?

If I was in a spaceship continually accelerating at $9.81m/s^2 =1g$ in a straight line, I would reach near light speed within a year. On Earth, we are in a gravitational field of $1g$, which ...
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### What is the condition for accelerating charge to radiate?

I was always taught that any accelerating charge produces radiation, but I don't think this condition is sufficient condition. For instance, any free charge on Earth is accelerated due to Earth ...
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### Electron traveling through gravitational and magnetic field

When an electron travels through a magnetic field it experiences the Lorentz force. The force acting on the electron causes an acceleration and therefore Cyclotron radiation is emitted. After reading ...
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### Does accelerating generate gravitons?

If gravity and acceleration are indistinguishable, then does that mean converting potential energy to kinetic energy generates gravitons... but only temporarily until you stop accelerating?
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### How does EM radiation depend on the reference frame?

In special relativity, magnetism is electrostatics in a different reference frame. This is how we explain the magnetic field being produced by moving charges (aka currents). Charges that move produce ...
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### Do accelerated moving electrons radiate electromagnetic energy?

Do accelerated moving electrons radiate electromagnetic energy? Generally speaking, the charge should absorb energy instead of radiating energy in the acceleration stage, and release energy in the ...

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