Speaker
Herbert Spohn (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Date & Time
Wed, 07 December 2016, 15:00 to 16:00
Venue
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
In a $\bar{h} = 0$ world radiative friction is very small but the effective equations for the motion of charges are still unsettled. Based on a model for a charge coupled to the Maxwell field I will explain why the equations written down around 1950 by Landau and Lifshitz are the appropriate effective equations.