Classical Charged Particles Third Edition Fritz Rohrlich Originally published in 1965, this famous text presents the classical theory of charged particles. When treated as point particles, classical charges are well-known to lead the divergent self-energies. Early in the twentieth century, Lorentz and Abraham derived equations of motion that are relativistically correct, and later, Dirac and others provided further insight. But these equations permit physically meaningless solutions including violations of causality. Despite many attempts, the theory was left incomplete and largely ignored. Thanks to efforts by several people just at the turn of the century, these remaining problems could be resolved successfully, and the author is now able to present this theory in a complete form. Fritz Rohrlich is Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University. He has a Ph.D. form Harvard (under Julian Schwinger) and was a post-doctoral assistant to Hans Bethe at Cornell. With Joseph Jauch, he co-authored the first American text on the new QED, The Theory of Photons and Electrons (1955).