Friday, January 20, 2017

special relativity - Time dilation and Lorentz transformation


I have trouble understanding the Lorentz transformation to proof the dilation of time.


If I use:


$$dt ^{'} = \frac{dt}{\sqrt{(1-(v^2/c^2))}}$$


Understanding that $S^{'}$ is the moving frame of reference.


We can see that the square root in the denominator is smaller when $v \rightarrow c$ and we get that if $v \rightarrow c$ then $dt' \rightarrow \inf$... something different to the expected result that time goes slower in S'.


What am I doing wrong?


Many thanks in advance.




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