About the Book

The book introduces an electrodynamics, in nine chapters, on the basis of electrostatic forces being propagated at the speed of light. It leads to extension of Coulomb's law, making the accelerating force, on a moving charged particle, dependent on the speed of the particle in an electrostatic field. For a particle reaching the speed of light, the accelerating force reduces to zero. The speed of light thus becomes the ultimate limit to which a charged particle can be accelerated by an electrostatic field, with its mass remaining constant. This is contrary to special relativity where mass increases with speed becoming infinitely large at the speed of light. Radiation force is shown to be the difference between the force on a stationary charged particle and the accelerating force on a moving charged particle. Radiation power is obtained as the scalar product of radiation force and velocity. The result gives a simple explanation of the source of radiation from accelerated charged particles, in contrast to classical and relativistic electrodynamics. Circular motion of a charged particle, as in the Rutherford’s nuclear model of the hydrogen atom, is shown to be stable, without recourse to Bohr's quantum theory. Also, the origin of inertia is explained and a unification of electrostatic and gravitational forces is found in contradistinction to the theory of general relativity. The book will appeal to mathematicians, physicists and engineers who are not comfortable with the relativity theories and quantum mechanics.