A brief and transparent derivation of the Lorentz-Einstein transformations via thought experiments

2006/02/08 by Bernhard Rothenstein, Rothenstein, Bernhard, Ştefan Popescu +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Computational Physics and Python Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0602054

Abstract

Starting with a thought experiment proposed by Kard, which derives the formula that accounts for the relativistic effect of length contraction, we present a "two line" transparent derivation of the Lorentz-Einstein transformations for the space-time coordinates of the same event. Our derivation make uses of Einstein's clock synchronization procedure

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