Relativistic dynamics without collisions and conservation laws
General Physics
2008-10-20 v1
Abstract
We show that the relativistic expressions for momentum and energy as well as the way in which they transform could be derived without involving collisions and conservation laws. Our approach involves relativistic kinematics via the addition law of relativistic velocities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3170,
title = {Relativistic dynamics without collisions and conservation laws},
author = {Bernhard Rothenstein and Stefan Popescu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3170},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Submitted to American Journal of Physics