2008/10/17 by Bernhard Rothenstein, Rothenstein, Bernhard, Stefan Popescu +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.3170
Submitted to American Journal of Physics
arxiv created 2008/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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.