That textbook chapter actually helped out a lot! I hadn't thought thoroughly about why the field was compressed into a 'pancake' transverse to the electron motion. I was just applying the Lorentz transformation to the electromagnetic field and not realizing that the compression of the field into...
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I'm a EE PhD student working a little bit out of my area, and have just gotten stumped trying to figure out the transient dymanics of a relativistic electron moving past a discontinuity. My little thought problem came up from wakefield interactions of a relativistic electron in a waveguide...