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    In relativistic physics, a velocity-addition formula is an equation that specifies how to combine the velocities of objects in a way that is consistent...
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    {1}{\sqrt {1+{\frac {|\mathbf {w} |^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}} . This formula provides a proper velocity gyrovector space model of hyperbolic geometry that uses a...
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  • spherical trigonometry. It can also be related to the relativistic velocity addition formula. Describing relations of hyperbolic geometry, Franz Taurinus showed...
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    Rapidity (category Velocity)
    Einstein's velocity-addition formula. For low speeds, rapidity and velocity are almost exactly proportional but, for higher velocities, rapidity takes a...
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  • the velocity of light in a moving medium is calculated, in the velocity-addition formula of special relativity. Einstein's theory of general relativity...
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    in which it corresponds to the relativistic velocity-addition formula when restricted to small velocities. Although it is referred to as the Fizeau experiment...
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    directions in space by decomposing the velocity vectors to their components in these directions. See Velocity-addition formula for details. The composition of...
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  • {1-\left({\frac {v}{c}}\right)^{2}}}={\sqrt {1-{\beta }^{2}}};} see velocity addition formula. Given below is a list of Lorentz formulae: The Lorentz transformation:...
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    vector addition in the Beltrami–Klein model can be given by the velocity addition formula. In order for the formula to generalize to vector addition in hyperbolic...
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  • Lie derivatives; Velocity-addition formula, Coriolis; Objectivity" by Gilles Leborgne, April 7, 2021: "Part IV Velocity-addition formula and Objectivity"[permanent...
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  • physicists throwing billiard balls, utilizing knowledge of the velocity addition formula and assuming conservation of momentum. This too gives only the...
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  • Faster-than-light (category Velocity)
    gives the correct velocity-addition formula for computing such relative velocity. It is instructive to compute the relative velocity of particles moving...
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    Representation theory of the Lorentz group Principle of relativity Velocity-addition formula Algebra of physical space Relativistic aberration Prandtl–Glauert...
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  • {\displaystyle t'} , from which the transformation of three-velocity (also called velocity-addition formula) between u {\displaystyle \mathbf {u} } and u ′ {\displaystyle...
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    In physics, angular velocity (symbol ω or ω → {\displaystyle {\vec {\omega }}} , the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as the angular frequency...
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    continuum mechanics: Motions, Eulerian and Lagrangian functions; Deformation gradient; Lie derivatives; Velocity-addition formula, Coriolis; Objectivity....
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    directions, the relativistic formula for relative velocity is similar in form to the formula for addition of relativistic velocities. v B | A = v B − v A 1...
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    proper. Also, Poincaré is the first to describe the relativistic velocity-addition formula – implicitly in his publication and explicitly in his letter to...
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    acquiring a velocity component in that direction in addition to its random thermal velocity. As a result, there is a definite small drift velocity of electrons...
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  • Lorentz's formulas for the transformations of charge density and current density (which implicitly contained the relativistic velocity-addition formula, which...
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    correction arising from frame-dragging, the Lense–Thirring precession. Velocity-addition formula Relativistic angular momentum Holonomy Explicitly, using vector...
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    enough energy, everywhere to infinity becomes accessible. The formula for escape velocity can be derived from the principle of conservation of energy....
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    which is identical with the relativistic velocity addition formula by interpreting the coordinates as velocities and by using the rapidity: sinh ⁡ a k cosh...
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  • he used an early form of four-vectors. He also formulated the velocity addition formula, which he had already derived in unpublished letters to Lorentz...
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    could have been anticipated from the formula for a simple boost in the x-direction, and for the relative velocity vector 1 c t x = w c = β = ( x 1 c t...
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  • }}a+b<1\\1&{\mbox{otherwise.}}\end{cases}}} Einstein sum (compare the velocity-addition formula under special relativity) ⊥ H 2 ( a , b ) = a + b 1 + a b {\displaystyle...
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    relativistic velocity addition formulas must be used, which can be derived from Lorentz transformations between different frames of reference. These formulas are...
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    addition operation is central to classical mechanics, in which velocities, accelerations and forces are all represented by vectors. Matrix addition is...
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  • simultaneity, length contraction, time dilation, the relativistic velocity addition formula, the relativistic Doppler effect, relativistic mass, a universal...
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    but rely only on measures of mass and distance. In addition its primary uses of measuring the velocity of a projectile or the recoil of a gun, the ballistic...
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