Newtonian and relativistic kinetic energy: analogous consequences of their conservation during elastic collisions

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/5/019MaRDI QIDQ5489766zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abraham A. Ungar

Publication date 28 September 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/27/5/019

zbMATH Keywords

centre of mass

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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