Larmor formula in the context of "Wave theory of light"

In electrodynamics, the Larmor formula is used to calculate the total power radiated by a nonrelativistic point charge as it accelerates. It was first derived by J. J. Larmor in 1897, in the context of the wave theory of light.

When any charged particle (such as an electron, a proton, or an ion) accelerates, energy is radiated in the form of electromagnetic waves. For a particle whose velocity is small relative to the speed of light (i.e., nonrelativistic), the total power that the particle radiates (when considered as a point charge) can be calculated by the Larmor formula:$${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}P&={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}}{4\pi \varepsilon _{0}c}}\left({\frac {\dot {v}}{c}}\right)^{2}={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{4\pi \varepsilon _{0}c^{3}}}\\[0.6ex]&={\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{6\pi \varepsilon _{0}c^{3}}}=\mu _{0}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{6\pi c}}&{\text{ (SI units)}}\\[1.5ex]P&={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{c^{3}}}&{\text{ (cgs units)}}\end{aligned}}}$$where ${\displaystyle {\dot {v}}}$ or ${\displaystyle a}$ is the proper acceleration, ${\displaystyle q}$ is the charge, ${\displaystyle c}$ is the speed of light, and ${\displaystyle \mu _{0}=1/\varepsilon _{0}c^{2}}$ is the vacuum permeability. A relativistic generalization is given by the Liénard–Wiechert potentials.