• English translation of Frenkel's paper: On the electrodynamics of point

    From john mcandrew@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 27 17:00:01 2021
    In case anyone is interested, D. H. Delphenich has recently made available on his blog an English translation of Frenkel's 1925 paper: On the electrodynamics of point-like electrons:

    Zur Elektrodynamik punktförmiger Elektronen,” Zeit. Phys. 32 (1925), 518-534 http://www.neo-classical-physics.info/uploads/3/4/3/6/34363841/frenkel_-_ed_of_point-like_electrons.pdf

    This was written just before QM took off, but it still makes for fascinating reading in showing that important theoretical discoveries were being made within CED even then. In particular, Frenkel proposed that CED can be rewritten using complex function
    theory, with the location of a point charge treated as a pole in the complex potential function. Dirac references Frenkel's paper in his 1938: paper Classical theory of radiating electrons.

    D. H. Delphenich has many other English translations of famous CED papers on his blog: http://www.neo-classical-physics.info/index.html

    JMcA

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