Production of Synchrotron Radiation

["James G. Pengra" <pengra@WHITMAN.EDU>]

Folks,
      I received the following message from a friend in Germany who is
starting up a program to attract high-school students to physics by means
of a Summer program.

> I will have to present the production of radiation when forces act on a
> moving >charge i.e. synchrotron radiation, as happens in the undulator of
> the free >electron laser. Now how would you explain to high school kids
> the emission of >photons when forces act on an electron ?

    How would you answer his question?

    TIA

--Jim Pengra, Walla Walla, Washinton 99362  mailto:pengra@whitman.edu