Synchronization and Inertial Frames
物理教育
2007-05-23 v1 经典物理
摘要
In classical mechanics, a procedure for simultaneous synchronization in all inertial frames is consistent with the Galilean transformation. However, if one attempts to achieve such a synchronization utilizing light signals, he will be facing in the first place the break down of simultaneity, and secondly, a self-contradictory transformation that has the Lorentz transformation, or its confinement to the velocity of light, as the only possible ways that resolve the contradiction. The current work constitutes a smooth transition from traditional to relativistic vision of mechanics, and therefore is quite appealing from pedagogical point of view.
引用
@article{arxiv.physics/9907020,
title = {Synchronization and Inertial Frames},
author = {C. P. Viazminsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9907020},
year = {2007}
}