  The present work discusses motion of neutral and charged particles in
Reissner - Nordstrom spacetime. The constant energy paths are derived in a
variational principle framework using the Jacobi metric which is parameterized
by conserved particle energy. Of particular interest is the case of particle
charge and Reissner-Nordstrom black hole charge being of same sign since this
leads to a clash of opposing forces - gravitational (attractive) and Coulomb
(repulsive). Our paper aims to compliment the recent works of Pugliese, Quevedo
and Ruffini [1,2]. The energy dependent Gaussian curvature (induced by Jacobi
metric), plays an important role in classifying the trajectories.
