sci.physics.electromag

On Apr 2, 12:49=A0pm, srp2...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 31 mar, 18:24, "Bill Miller"
> wrote:
> > wrote in message
> >news:4f2eb2c7-7a7b-49c6-91f0-9a18d89ed388@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com...=

> > On 28 mar, 05:03, shsfowcn...@mailinator.com wrote:
> > The actual relation is that anytime an electron is forced to slow
> > down, the energy now in excess evacuates as a photon. The
> > process is called bremmstrahlung, and although all occurences
> > boil down to this, it is seldom referred to as such.
>
> > Are you saying that all radiation is bremmstrahlung,? I got my a**s chew=
ed
> > pretty fiercely by a couple of High Energy folks when I suggested that o=
n a
> > different thread. They maintained that bremmstrahlung is strictly a High=

> > Energy phenomenon that manifests itself then near-light-speed charges ei=
ther
> > bang into one another (or something else) and move suddenly in a differe=
nt
> > direction OR come to a (forced) screeching halt.
>
> Any charged particle slowing down, either transverse as with wiggling
> induced
> synchrotron radiation, or longitudinal as you mention can only be
> bremmstrahlung by definition. Simple semantics.
>
> > Suggested reading on this phenomenon?
>
> If you translate the word to english, it translates as "slowing down
> radiation".

There is no "english", nor is "radiation" English. "Bremsstrahlung"
means "brakesbeaming".