  Using physical arguments, I derive the physically correct equations of motion
for a classical charged particle from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equations (LAD)
which are well known to be physically incorrect. Since a charged particle can
classically not be a point particle because of the Coulomb field divergence, my
derivation accounts for that by imposing a basic condition on the external
force. That condition ensures that the particle's finite size charge
distribution looks like a point charge to the external force. Finite radius
charge distributions are known not to lead to differential equations of motion.
The present work is in agreemnent with the results by Spohn and by others. An
example, uniform acceleration, demonstrates what the above basic condition
entails. For clarity of the argument, I discuss the non-relativistic case
before the relativistic one.
