Alternative proofs for Kocik's geometric diagram for relativistic velocity addition

DOI10.4171/EM/307MaRDI QIDQ509116zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Victor Ufnarovski, Amol Sasane

Publication date 8 February 2017

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08229

zbMATH Keywords

Kocik's geometric diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: A geometric construction for the Poincare formula for relativistic addition of velocities in one dimension was given by Jerzy Kocik in "Geometric Diagram for Relativistic Addition of Velocities", American Journal of Physics, volume 80, page 737, 2012. While the proof given there used Cartesian coordinate geometry, three alternative approaches are given in this article: a trigonometric one, one via Euclidean geometry, and one using projective geometry.

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