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Visual relativistic mechanics

2024/08/13 by Karol Urbański, Urbański, Karol · 1 voice
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #History and Developments in Astronomy #gr-qc #physics.class-ph #physics.ed-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.07036

openalex publication_date 2024/08/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

This article shows how to express relativistic concepts in a visual manner using the full power of hyperbolic trigonometric functions. Minkowski diagrams in energy-momentum space are used in conjunction with hyperbolic triangles. Elegant new derivations of the relativistic rocket equation and the relativistic Doppler effect are presented that use this visual approach.

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