Relativistic mechanical-thermodynamical formalism -- description of inelastic collisions

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/37/1/015602zbMATH Open1396.70023arXiv1606.01940OpenAlexW2232378081MaRDI QIDQ2807263FDOQ2807263

Authors: J. Güémez, M. Fiolhais, Luis Antonio Fernández 

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a relativistic formalism inspired on the Minkowski four-vectors that also includes conservation laws such as the first law of thermodynamics. It remains close to the relativistic four-vector formalism developed for a single particle, but it is also related to the classical treatment of problems that imperatively require both the Newton's second law and the energy conservation law. We apply the developed formalism to inelastic collisions to better show how it works.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01940

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zbMATH Keywords

mechanicsthermodynamicsspecial relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

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