Re: mass versus radiation resistance

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 09:02 4/10/01 -0400, John Denker wrote:
> At 10:13 PM 4/9/01 -0400, Robert B Zannelli wrote:
> > It would seem then, that the effect of radiation resistance would be
> > to cause a LOWER rates of ACCELERATION for charged particles (Assuming
> > significant dv/dt) as well as HIGHER rates of DECELERATION for these same
> > charged particles as compared to uncharged particles with the same mass
for a
> > given Force. Is that right?
>
> Yes.
>
> At 09:42 PM 4/9/01 -0500, brian whatcott wrote:
>
> > No.


Let me try another tack.
In an absolute frame of reference with dissipative qualities, a
reduced acceleration rate and an increased deceleration rate have
distinct connotations of energy loss.
 For this modeling concept, this mindset, one hardly needs to
distinguish the two conditions.

In an arbitrary frame of reference, a lowered acceleration rate may
imply an energy loss or dissipation, and a higher deceleration rate
may imply (to my mind at least) an energy gain.
   I take it that this contrast of effects is what is being called
to the collective attention by Robert B Zannelli's note.
(Otherwise why would he set out the two conditions?)

 This energy gain associated with increased deceleration might be
called an energy restitution, if the previously mentioned
transaction was  prior in time.
That is the antithesis of energy dissipation.

Or to put it in yet another way. A change of velocity in
a charged particle is associated with a photon transmission, OR
a photon absorption.

Please feel free to post a corrective to this conception.

:-)


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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