Relativity - Kevin S. Huang · Postulates of Special Relativity 1. The laws of physics are the same...
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Relativity
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Relativity- Seen as an intricate theory that is necessary when dealing with really high speeds
- Two charged initially stationary particles: Electrostatic force
- In another, moving reference frame, there is also a magnetic force
- How could force depend on the choice of the inertial frame?
- Electromagnetism needs relativity for an explanation
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Applications- Photons (much of optics) are always relativistic
- GPS measuring the time for a radio signal to travel from satellites
- Particle physics
- Quantum field theory: relativistic
- General relativity – relativistic theory of gravity
- Astrophysics and cosmology
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Postulates of Special Relativity
1. The laws of physics are the same in every inertial reference frame.
Inertial frame: objects which no force acts upon move in a straight line with constant velocity
2. The speed of light in vacuum (c) is the same in every inertial reference frame.
c = 299,792,458 m/s
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Time Dilation
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Fact 1: Lorentz factorIf the time interval between events happening at a stationary point is t, then in a reference frame where the speed of the point is v the time interval is γt.
β = v/c
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Length Contraction
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Fact 2: Length contraction- If the length of a stationary rod is l, then its length in a reference frame moving in parallel to the rod with speed v is l/γ.
- Lengths are contracted (compressed) in the direction of motion.
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Proper Time
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Lorentz transformations- Galilean relativity, lengths and time intervals are absolute
- Einsteinian relativity, neither is absolute
- Proper time must be independent of our reference frame
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Fact 3: The spacetime interval
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Fact 4- If s is a real number, the interval is called time-like
- If s is imaginary, the interval is space-like
- If s is zero, the interval is light-like
The interval between two events on the same light-ray (in vacuum) is zero – thus, light-like.
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Minkowski spacetimeSpacetime points are represented by position four-vectors.
Introduce complex numbers to use Pythagorean theorem.
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Fact 5Changes of inertial reference frames correspond to rotations and shifts in the space coordinates ict, x, y, and z.
- General: Poincaré transformations
- Only rotate and do not shift: Lorentz transformations
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Fact 6: Lorentz boostA Lorentz boost in the x-direction from standstill to velocity c corresponds to rotation of x- and ict-axis by an angle:
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Fact 7: Rapidity
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Hyperbolic Geometry- Eliminate imaginary units and some minuses
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Fact 8: Velocity Addition FormulaIf an object moves with velocity u with respect to frame O’ and O’ moves with velocity v with respect to frame O, then the velocity of the object in O is:
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Fact 9If there exists a reference frame where an object moves slower than light, then it does so in every reference frame.
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Light-Cones- The trajectory of a particle in space-time is called its world-line
- The world-line of a photon cuts a special wedge in the diagram
- The inside of the wedge can be influenced by an event at the tip of the cone; the outside cannot
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Fact 10If the spacetime diagram is scaled so that i meters (on the ict-axis) is at the same distance from the origin as 1 meter (on the x-axis), then the world-line of a photon is at 45° from either axis.
Fact 11Simultaneity is relative.
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Fact 12The order of two events with time-like or light-like separation is absolute. For space-like separation, the order depends on the reference frame.
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Fact 13Time-like separation or light-like separation allows one event to be the cause of another
Causality should hold: No information may be sent to the past
Information cannot propagate faster than light in a vacuum.
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Fact 14: Lorentz transformationsWhen going to a reference frame moving in the x-direction with velocity v, the time and space coordinates of an event transform as follows:
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Dynamics: Four Vector- Collection of four numbers that transforms under Lorentz transformations
- Spatial components rotate just like a usual vector
- Time and space components are mixed by Lorentz boosts that act as rotations in the four-space of
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Dynamics: Four VectorBoost in the x-direction:
Lorentz-invariant length of the four-vector:
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Fact 15Four-velocity:
Four-acceleration:
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Fact 16
The length of any four-velocity is c.
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Fact 17The four-momentum of a particle with mass m is the four vector:
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Fact 18
Total energy:
Relativistic momentum:
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Fact 19The length of the four-momentum is mc, regardless of what the velocity is.
For massless particles (such as photons), E = pc.
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Fact 20In interactions, four-momentum is conserved.
Encompasses both the conservation of energy and the conservation of momentum.
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Fact 21The total energy can be separated into the rest energy and the kinetic energy.
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EnergyIf an object has any internal energy, then it must be taken into account in its rest energy and its rest mass.
For any ultrarelativistic object moving with almost the speed of c, the rest energy and rest mass can be neglected, E ≈ pc.
Speed of light, c, corresponds to γ = ∞.
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Fact 22It takes infinite energy to accelerate a massive object to c. Massless particles move only with a speed of c.
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Force
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Optical effects
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L’’=𝟏−β𝟏+β
L
Positive v is moving away from observer
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Fact 26: Lorentz Force
Electromagnetic field:
Separate the field into components parallel and perpendicular to Ԧ𝑣:
Lorentz transformations: