Tantalising asymmetries in special relativity (Q1069156)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3933973
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    Tantalising asymmetries in special relativity
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3933973

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      Tantalising asymmetries in special relativity (English)
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      This short and elementary paper deals with the special relativistic addition law for collinear velocities. The author investigates the behaviour of this formula under transformations \(v\mapsto c^ 2/v\), which turns velocities smaller than c into velocities larger than c, and vice versa.
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      addition law
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      velocities
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