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Three routes to relativistic kinematics and time dilation and their connection to quantum-mechanical path integrals
- Source :
- European Journal of Physics. 41:025602
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2020.
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Abstract
- The first calculation, similar to that of Lewis of 1908, takes as postulates Newton's Second Law of Motion and work-energy equivalence, the second makes use of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for motion in free space and the third identifies the velocity of a freely moving particle with the group velocity of its associated de Broglie wave. In all cases the equivalence of mass and energy is also postulated. How the Path Integral formulation of quantum mechanics relates all the different calculations is demonstated. The essential roles of relativity, quantum mechanics and the particulate nature of light in the establishment of the current standard units of length, time and mass, are discussed, as well as the similar relations of the fundamental constants $c$, $h$ and $k$ to energy at the microscopic physics level.
- Subjects :
- Physics
05 social sciences
050301 education
General Physics and Astronomy
Mass–energy equivalence
Kinematics
01 natural sciences
Classical mechanics
Theory of relativity
0103 physical sciences
Path integral formulation
Group velocity
Time dilation
Matter wave
010306 general physics
0503 education
Quantum
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13616404 and 01430807
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9a548b3be291ca0a3f7fad36cdb498f7