Making sense of relativistic composition of velocities

2019/10/14 by Jerzy Kocik, Kocik, Jerzy
Physics and Astronomy · #51P05 #83A05 #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc #msc:51P05 #msc:83A05

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.06785

17 pages, 9 figures

arxiv created 2019/10/14 · arxiv updated 2019/10/16

Abstract

What does it mean to ``add'' velocities relativistically -- clarification of the conceptual problems, new derivations of the related formulas, and identification of the source of the non-associativity of the standard vector version of the addition formula are addressed.

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