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Production of Synchrotron Radiation



Folks,
I received the following message from a friend in Germany who is
starting up a program to attract high-school students to physics by means
of a Summer program.

I will have to present the production of radiation when forces act on a
moving >charge i.e. synchrotron radiation, as happens in the undulator of
the free >electron laser. Now how would you explain to high school kids
the emission of >photons when forces act on an electron ?

How would you answer his question?

TIA

--Jim Pengra, Walla Walla, Washinton 99362 mailto:pengra@whitman.edu