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The problem of determining the electromagnetic and gravitational ``self-force'' on a particle in a curved spacetime is investigated using an axiomatic approach. In the electromagnetic case, our key postulate is a ``comparison axiom'', which…

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The Lagrangian, the Hamiltonian and the constant of motion of the gravitational attraction of two bodies when one of them has variable mass is considered. The relative and center of mass coordinates are not separated, and choosing the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Lopez

We present a detailed analysis of random motions moving in higher spaces with a natural number of velocities. In the case of the so-called minimal random dynamics, under some wide assumptions, we show the joint distribution of the position…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Fabrizio Cinque , Mattia Cintoli

A theory for (1+3)-dimensional relativistic Brownian motion under the influence of external force fields is put forward. Starting out from a set of relativistically covariant, but multiplicative Langevin equations we describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

The motion of a charged particle moving on a flat surface is studied through the constants of motion associated to the system, given the magnetic gauge. The usual Landau' solution and the non separable solution for the Landau's gauge are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Gustavo V. López , Jorge A. Lizarraga

The kinematics of a particle with the upper bound on the particle's speed (a modification of classical kinematics where such a restriction is absent) has been developed in [arXiv:1204.5740]. It was based solely on classical mechanics…

General Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Alex Granik

We consider a macroscopic body propagating in a one-dimensional resistive medium, consisting of an ideal gas at temperature $T$. For a whole family of collisions with varying degree of inelasticity, we find an exact expression for the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Molina

The relativistic addition of parallel velocities is derived involving relativity only via the time dilation formula, avoiding the length contraction used by many authors in conjunction with time dilation. The followed scenario involves a…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Bernhard Rothenstein , Stefan Popescu

Most of the logical objections against the classical laws of motion, as they are usually presented in textbooks, centre on the fact that defining force in terms of mass and acceleration, the first two laws are mere assertions of concepts to…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R Assumpcao

We study, via extensive numerical simulations, the force-velocity curve of an active particle advected by a steady laminar flow, in the nonlinear response regime. Our model for an active particle relies on a colored noise term that mimics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-07 F. Cecconi , A. Puglisi , A. Sarracino , A. Vulpiani

Relativistic effects in the thermodynamical properties of interacting particle systems are investigated within the framework of the relativistic direct interaction theory in various forms of dynamics. In the front form of relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Tretyak

We generalize the derivation of electromagnetic fields of a charged particle moving with a constant acceleration [1] to a variable acceleration (piecewise constants) over a small finite time interval using Coulomb's law, relativistic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Sandeep Aashish , Asrarul Haque

We study the ratchet effect of a damped relativistic particle driven by both asymmetric temporal bi-harmonic and time-periodic piecewise constant forces. This system can be formally solved for any external force, providing the ratchet…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Niurka R. Quintero , Renato Alvarez-Nodarse , José A. Cuesta

We consider elastic bodies in rigid rotation, both nonrelativistically and in special relativity. Assuming a body to be in its natural state in the absence of rotation, we prove the existence of solutions to the elastic field equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Beig , B. G. Schmidt

In this article we review the problem of reaction annihilation $A+A \rightarrow \emptyset$ on a real lattice in one dimension, where $A$ particles move ballistically in one direction with a discrete set of possible velocities. We first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-16 Soham Biswas , Francois Leyvraz

Using physical arguments, I derive the physically correct equations of motion for a classical charged particle from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equations (LAD) which are well known to be physically incorrect. Since a charged particle can…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fritz Rohrlich

We consider an overdamped Brownian particle, exposed to a two-dimensional, square lattice potential and a rectangular ac-drive. Depending on the driving amplitude, the linear response to a weak dc-force along a lattice symmetry axis consist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Speer , R. Eichhorn , P. Reimann

A derivation of the relative velocity used in the definition of the relativistic cross-section is given in terms of manifestly Lorentz invariant quantities. Along the way we find that there is a certain arbitrariness in the usual definition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 David Garfinkle

We study the motion of a one-dimensional particle which reverses its direction of acceleration stochastically. We focus on two contrasting scenarios, where the waiting-times between two consecutive acceleration reversals are drawn from (i)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ion Santra , Durgesh Ajgaonkar , Urna Basu

After having identified all the possible relationships between the electric field and the magnetic field in a given inertial reference frame we derive the transformation equations for the components of these fields. Special relativity is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-10-17 Bernhard Rothenstein , Stefan Popescu