Order reductions of Lorentz-Dirac-like equations

Abstract

We discuss the phenomenon of preacceleration in the light of a method of successive approximations used to construct the physical order reduction of a large class of singular equations. A simple but illustrative physical example is analyzed to get more insight into the convergence properties of the method.

6 pages, LaTeX, IOP macros, no figures

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