Lorentz transformations with arbitrary line of motion
| Autor: | Iyer, Chandru, Prabhu, G. M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | Eur J. Phys. 28 (2007) pp183-190 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0143-0807/28/2/004 |
| Popis: | Sometimes it becomes a matter of natural choice for an observer (A) that he prefers a coordinate system of two-dimensional spatial x-y coordinates from which he observes another observer (B) who is moving at a uniform speed along a line of motion, which is not collinear with As chosen x or y axis. It becomes necessary in such cases to develop Lorentz transformations where the line of motion is not aligned with either the x or the y-axis. In this paper we develop these transformations and show that under such transformations, two orthogonal systems (in their respective frames) appear non-orthogonal to each other. We also illustrate the usefulness of the transformation by applying it to three problems including the rod-slot problem. The derivation has been done before using vector algebra. Such derivations assume that the axes of K and K-prime are parallel. Our method uses matrix algebra and shows that the axes of K and K-prime do not remain parallel, and in fact K and K-prime which are properly orthogonal are observed to be non-orthogonal by K-prime and K respectively. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0143-0807/28/2/004 Comment: 11 pages and an appendix. Published in European Journal of Physics (2007) Eur J. Phys. 28 (2007) pp183-190 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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