Tuesday, September 9, 2014

special relativity - How did L.H. Thomas derive his 1927 expressions for an electron with an axis?


I'm looking at the 1927 paper of Thomas, The Kinematics of an Electron with an Axis, where he shows that the instantaneous co-moving frame of an accelerating electron rotates and moves with some infinitesimal velocity. He states:



At t=t0 let the electron have position r0 and velocity v0, with β0=(1v02/c2)12, in (r,t). Then, by (2.1), that definite system of coordinates (R0,T0) in which the electron is instantaneously at rest at the origin and which is obtained from (r,t) by a translation and a Lorentz transformation without rotation is gven by R0=rr0+(β01)(rr0)v0v02v0β0v0(tt0)T0=β0(tt0(rr0)v0c2)


By eliminating (r,t) from equations (3.1) and the similar equations for (R1,T1),R1=R0+(β01)v02(R0×(v0×dv0))β0T0(dv0+(β01)(v0dv0)v02v0)T1=T0β0c2((R0(dv0+(β01)(v0dv0)v02v0)))dτ0



What are the steps to get from (3.1) to (3.3)?




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