A novel approach to relativistic dynamics : integrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics / Yaakov Friedman, Tzvi Scarr.
Friedman, Yaakov, author.; Scarr, Tzvi, author.
2023
QC173.6
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Title A novel approach to relativistic dynamics : integrating gravity, electromagnetism and optics / Yaakov Friedman, Tzvi Scarr.
Author Friedman, Yaakov, author.
ISBN 9783031252143 (electronic bk.)
3031252144 (electronic bk.)
3031252136
9783031252136
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25214-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-25214-3 doi
Call Number QC173.6
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.11
Summary This self-contained monograph provides a mathematically simple and physically meaningful model which unifies gravity, electromagnetism, optics and even some quantum behavior. The simplicity of the model is achieved by working in the frame of an inertial observer and by using a physically meaningful least action principle. The authors introduce an extension of the Principle of Inertia. This gives rise to a simple, physically meaningful action function. Visualizations of the geometryare obtained by plotting the action function. These visualizations may be used to compare the geometries of different types of fields. Moreover, a new understanding of the energy-momentum of a field emerges. The relativistic dynamics derived here properly describes motion of massive and massless objects under the influence of a gravitational and/or an electromagnetic field, and under the influence of isotropic media. The reader will learn how to compute the precession of Mercury, the deflection of light, and the Shapiro time delay. Also covered is the relativistic motion of binary stars, including the generation of gravitational waves, a derivation of Snell's Law and a relativistic description of spin. We derive a complex-valued prepotential of an electromagnetic field. The prepotential is similar to the wave function in quantum mechanics. The mathematics is accessible to students after standard courses in multivariable calculus and linear algebra. For those unfamiliar with tensors and the calculus of variations, these topics are developed rigorously in the opening chapters. The unifying model presented here should prove useful to upper undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to seasoned researchers.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Scarr, Tzvi, author.
Series Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 210.
Available in Other Form NOVEL APPROACH TO RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS.
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1. Introduction
2. Classical Dynamics
3. The Lorentz Transformations and Minkowski Space
4. The Geometric Model of Relativistic Dynamics
5. The Electromagnetic Field in Vacuum
6. The Gravitational Field
7. Motion of Light and Charges in Isotropic Media
8. Spin and Complexified Minkowski Spacetime
9. The Prepotential.

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