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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Title: Non-coordinate time/velocity pairs in special relativity

Authors: P. Fraundorf (Physics & Astronomy, U. Missouri-StL)
Abstract: Motions with respect to one inertial (or ``map'') frame are often described in terms of the coordinate time/velocity pair (or ``kinematic'') of the map frame itself. Since not all observers experience time in the same way, other time/velocity pairs describe map-frame trajectories as well. Such coexisting kinematics provide alternate variables to describe acceleration. We outline a general strategy to examine these. For example, Galileo's acceleration equations describe unidirectional relativistic motion {\it exactly} if one uses $V=\frac{dx}{dT}$, where $x$ is map-frame position and $T$ is clock time in a chase plane moving such that $\gamma ^{\prime }=\gamma \sqrt{\frac 2{\gamma +1}}$. Velocity in the traveler's kinematic, on the other hand, has dynamical and transformational properties which were lost by coordinate-velocity in the transition to Minkowski space-time. Its repeated appearance with coordinate time, when expressing relationships in simplest form, suggests complementarity between traveler and coordinate kinematic views.
Comments: RevTeX, full (3+1)D treatment w/5 tables, 1bw and 1greyscale figure. Mat'l on 1D origins at this http URL
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
Report number: UMStL-CME-960625pf
Cite as: arXiv:gr-qc/9607038v1

Submission history

From: Phil Fraundorf [view email]
[v1] Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:28:06 GMT (56kb)