Physics 3151A/B Lecture 11: Special_relativity

• School: Western University
• Department: Physics
• Course: Physics 3151A/B
• Professor: Martin Houde

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Note: please also consult the (fifth) problem list associated with this chapter. In this chapter, latin indices are used for space coordinates only (e. g. , i = 1, 2, 3 , etc. ), while greek indices are for space-time coordinates (e. g. , ! !u relative to an observer who is at rest an inertial frame. Within the framework of newtonian mechanics, it seems natural to expect that the velocity of an object as seen by observers at rest in different inertial frames will differ depending on the relative velocity of their respective frame. That is, it would seem reasonable to expect that velocities should be added when transforming from one inertial frame to another; such a transformation is called a. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that this fact is at the heart of newton"s second law. Indeed, if we write the mathematical form of the second.