Archives for Special Relativity
Minkowski and Lorentz Transformations
Minkowski proposed that time itself should be considered as one of the coordinate axes, alongside the three spatial dimensions Lorentz Transformation: The concept of Lorentz transformations, which describe how…
Measuring the Speed of light in vacuum
Measurement of the Speed of Light in a Vacuum Solution: Apparatus: Pulsed laser source Beam splitter Two mirrors (one movable and one fixed) Fast photodetector Oscilloscope Procedure: Set up the…
Verify that a boost in the x-direction that any object traveling at speed c in an inertial frame S travels at speed c in the boosted frame.
Verify directly from the form of the Lorentz transformation representing a boost in the x-direction that any object traveling at speed c in an inertial frame S travels at speed…
Relativity – Theory of Invariants
Relativity just saws that certain physical quantities should remain invariant regardless of the reference frame they are viewed in. A Vector is invariant regardless of the frame it is viewed…