The "Relativistic" Mug
Popular Physics
2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Physics Education
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
This note is an attempt to explain in simple words why the famous relation misrepresents the essence of Einstein's relativity theory. The note is addressed to high-school teachers, and a part of it - to those university professors who permit themselves to say that the mass of a body increases with its velocity or momentum and thus mislead the teachers and their students. ----- Contains both English and Russian versions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.5400,
title = {The "Relativistic" Mug},
author = {L. B. Okun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5400},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure in English (9 pages, 1 figure in Russian)