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Aberration and Special Relativity

Authors	Eric Baird
Categories	physics.ed-ph
ArXiv ID	physics/9806037
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9806037

Abstract

Section 7 of Einstein's 1905 electrodynamics paper gives frequency-shift and aberration formulae that together describe an elongated ellipsoidal wavefront. A Lorentz contraction of this ellipsoid solves most (but not all) of the associated relativistic problems.

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