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Volume 14: Pages 123-123, 2001

On the Velocity of Charged Particles

Robert J. Hannon

3949 Wilshire Court, Sarasota, Florida 34238‐2571 U.S.A.

A nonrelativistic explanation of why it appears that charged particles cannot be accelerated to or beyond the speed of light is given.

Keywords: mass, momentum, velocity, special relativity, velocity of light, Maxwell's electromagnetic and electrostatic forces

Received: June 25, 1999; Published online: December 15, 2008