Relativistic Motion

Walter Thirring and Evans Harrell
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Walter Thirring: University of Vienna, Institute for Theoretical Physics
Evans Harrell: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chapter 5 in A Course in Mathematical Physics 1, 1978, pp 185-234 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The theory of special relativity replaces the Galilean group with the Poincaré group. This makes the equations of motion of a particle in an external field only slightly more complicated. However, physics at high velocities looks quite different from its nonrelativistic limit.

Keywords: Relativistic Motion; Gauge Transformation; Gravity Wave; Gravitational Field; Lorentz Force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-8526-1_5

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