Special theory of relativity through the Doppler effect

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/6/015zbMATH Open1107.83005arXivphysics/0605204OpenAlexW3100364443WikidataQ56019049 ScholiaQ56019049MaRDI QIDQ3421707FDOQ3421707

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Publication date: 8 February 2007

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

Abstract: We present the special theory of relativity taking the Doppler effect as the starting point, and derive several of its main effects, such as time dilation, length contraction, addition of velocities, and the mass-energy relation, and assuming energy and momentum conservation, we discuss how to introduce the 4-momentum in a natural way. We also use the Doppler effect to explain the "twin paradox", and its version on a cylinder. As a by-product we discuss Bell's spaceship paradox, and the Lorentz transformation for arbitrary velocities in one dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605204

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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