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Accelerating charged particles and conservation of energy
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[QUOTE="Nugatory, post: 6066337, member: 382138"] Yes. The energy expended to accelerate a charged particle is the sum of the increase in kinetic energy and the energy that is radiated away.Not possible (at least not in the context of this thread). The electrical field around the particle must change when it is accelerated because we are moving a charged particle around. Electromagnetic radiation is the way that change propagates, so it has to be present. Calculating exactly how much energy goes into radiation and how much goes into kinetic energy change will depend on the details of your particular setup. But it's not arbitrary: if you say that we have a charged point particle moving with a given acceleration along a given path we can in principle calculate exactly what the radiation emission will be. [/QUOTE]
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