Electromagnetic power radiation

[gnome]

Given that the electromagnetic power radiated by a nonrelativistic moving point charge q having acceleration a is:
[tex]P = \frac {q^2a^2}{6 \pi \epsilon_0 c^3} [/tex]
(This formula was presented without discussion or explanation in the problems section of my textbook.)


If a proton is placed in a cyclotron with a radius of 0.500 m and a magnetic field of magnitude 0.350 T, what electromagnetic power is radiated by this proton?

This looks like one of those dumb problems where you just plug numbers into a formula, but ... what's a in this situation? We are not given the voltage difference between the dees of the cyclotron. So I thought maybe I can use the exit velocity of the proton of the proton given by
[tex]v = \frac {qBr}{m}[/tex]

Edited:
OK. It turns out that was the right approach. Only I went off talking about angular acceleration, when I should be dealing with centripetal acceleration. So, the following lines of tex are garbage. The corrected stuff is in the next post.
[tex]a = \frac{v^2}{r} = \frac{q^2B^2r^2}{m^2r}[/tex]

[tex]a^2 = \frac{q^4B^4r^2}{m^4}[/tex]

 

[gnome]

OK.

Please just disregard that garbage up above. I've tried editing it several times, but for some reason the board won't let me fix the tex images, so the last 2 lines of tex are nonsense.

Sorry...

It should say

[tex]a = \frac{v^2}{r} = \frac{q^2B^2r^2}{m^2r} [/tex]

and then:

[tex]a^2 = \frac{q^4B^4r^2}{m^4} [/tex]

and then putting that into the power equation works.

 

[Doc Al]

Well... you saved me the trouble of decoding them!

That power equation is called Larmor's formula, by the way.