Rotation and Spin in Physics

2010/01/01 by R. F. O'Connell, Robert F. O’Connell
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Generalization #Order (exchange) #Quantum #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Rotation (mathematics) #Spin (aerodynamics) #gr-qc #physics.class-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0_14

published as in "General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler", edited by Ignazio Ciufolini and Richard A.Matzner (Springer 2010)

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Abstract

We delineate the role of rotation and spin in physics, discussing in order Newtonian classical physics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics and general relativity. In the latter case, we discuss the generalization of the Kepler formula to post-Newtonian order (c^-2) including spin effects and two-body effects. Experiments which verify the theoretical results for general relativistic spin-orbit effects are discussed as well as efforts being made to verify the spin-spin effects.

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