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View SchemaGraphical aids for relativistic optics
| Authors | Bernhard Rothenstein, Corina Nafornita |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0503003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503003 |
Abstract
The paper presents a relativistic space-time diagram, which displays in true values the space (Cartesian and polar) and the time coordinates of the same event detected from two inertial reference frames in relative motion related by the Lorentz-Einstein transformations, the aberration angles and the Doppler shifted periods and wavelengths. We use it in order to illustrate the reflection of light on moving mirrors (horizontal and vertical) and the way in which a single observer could measure the length of a moving rod. It displays in true values the space-time coordinates of the same event generated by a light signal.
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