Add to ORKGThomas precession is a curiouse effct in special relativity which is purely kinematical in origin and illustrates some important features of the Lorentz transformation. It also has a beautiful geometric interpretation. We will explore these in this and the next installment
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A solution to the 3-body problem in gravity, due to Lagrange, has several remarkable features. In pa...
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The Thomas precession is calculated using three different transformations to the rotating frame. It ...
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Discovering unexpected connections between completely different phenomena is always a delight in phy...
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Variational principles play a central role in theoretical physics in many guises. We will discuss, i...
Obtaining the classical limit of quantum mechanics turns out to be conceptually and operationally no...
Some of the curious effects in quantum theory and statistical mechanics can be interpreted by analyt...
The vacuum state of the electromagnetic field is far from trivial. Amongst other things it can exert...
This is the first of a series of investigations concerning which details will be given at the end o...
The Foucault pendulum is an elegant device that demonstrates the rotation of the Earth. After descri...
Many features of the expanding universe, which should be legitimately discussed using general relati...
A solution to the 3-body problem in gravity, due to Lagrange, has several remarkable features. In pa...
The major contribution of Kepler was in discovering his laws of planetary motion, one of which state...
The idealized flow of fluid a round a spherical body is a classic textbook problem in fluid mechanic...
The Thomas precession is calculated using three different transformations to the rotating frame. It ...
The probability amplitude for a particle to propagate from event to event in spacetime shows some ni...
Space and time are concepts that seem to be embedded in our very consciousness. As we grow up, our '...
Discovering unexpected connections between completely different phenomena is always a delight in phy...
The statistical mechanics of a system of particles interacting through gravity leads to several coun...
Variational principles play a central role in theoretical physics in many guises. We will discuss, i...
Obtaining the classical limit of quantum mechanics turns out to be conceptually and operationally no...
Some of the curious effects in quantum theory and statistical mechanics can be interpreted by analyt...
The vacuum state of the electromagnetic field is far from trivial. Amongst other things it can exert...
This is the first of a series of investigations concerning which details will be given at the end o...