Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet

Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Appearance of Objects at Relativistic Velocities, a Holographic Approach
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Production Engineering, Metrology and Optics.
2010 (English)In: SEARCH FOR FUNDAMENTAL THEORY / [ed] Amoroso RL, Rowlands P, Jeffers S, MELVILLE, NY: AMER INST PHYSICS , 2010, Vol. 1316, p. 118-124Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A diagram borrowed from holographic interferometry has been applied to visualize phenomena in Special Relativity. It displays how a sphere of observation is by velocity elongated into an ellipsoid of observation and produces graphically all the well accepted equations of Einsteins Special Relativity. The Lorentz contraction, however, is explained as an elongation of the measuring rod, the meter, which by definition is based on either a specific number of wavelengths or the velocity of light multiplied by time. The diagram displays the total apparent object distortions including not only the Lorentz contraction but also larger apparent contractions and elongations caused by the classic Doppler Effect. The reasons of these deformations are the delays caused by variations in distance from observer to different parts of the moving object. In this paper we do not discuss the meaning of apparent, as compared to real, deformation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MELVILLE, NY: AMER INST PHYSICS , 2010. Vol. 1316, p. 118-124
Series
AIP Conference Proceedings, ISSN 0094-243X
National Category
Other Physics Topics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-31637DOI: 10.1063/1.3536426ISI: 000286946500008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-78751539921ISBN: 978-0-7354-0870-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-31637DiVA, id: diva2:405439
Conference
7th International Symposium Honoring French Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier Imperial Coll, London, ENGLAND, JUL 12-14, 2010
Note
QC 20110322Available from: 2011-03-22 Created: 2011-03-21 Last updated: 2022-06-24Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Abramson, Nils H.
By organisation
Metrology and Optics
Other Physics Topics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 843 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf