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  • 7 - Dynamics

  • Norman Gray, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    A Student's Guide to Special Relativity
    Published online:
    26 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 125-144

  • Summary

    In the , we have learned how to describe motion; we now want to explain it. In newtonian mechanics, we do this by defining quantities such as momentum, energy, force and so on. To what extent can we do this in the context of relativity, with our new 4-vector tools?

  • 4 - Spacetime and Geometry

  • Norman Gray, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    A Student's Guide to Special Relativity
    Published online:
    26 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 45-71

  • Summary

    But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled…. ‘Meters per second’ will integrate to ‘meters.’ The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It will never fall.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • Norman Gray, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    A Student's Guide to Special Relativity
    Published online:
    26 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    Understand the importance of events within Special Relativity, and the distinction between events and their coordinates in a particular frame; and appreciate why we have to define very carefully the process of measuring distances and times, and how we go about this.

  • 6 - Vectors and Kinematics

  • Norman Gray, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    A Student's Guide to Special Relativity
    Published online:
    26 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 103-124

  • Summary

    In , we used the axioms ofto obtain the Lorentz transformation. That allowed us to describe events in two different frames in relative motion. That part was rather mathematical in style. Now we are going to return to the physics, and describe motion: velocity, acceleration, momentum, energy and mass.

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