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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

Another route to the Lorentz transformations

E. G. Bessonov

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: This paper uses the Galilean relativity principle and the dependence of the rate of a clock on its velocity to derive the Lorentz transformations (LTs). Analyzing different ways of deriving the LTs provides different perspectives on them and their implications, as well as making them more accessible to a wide range of readers with an interest in relativistic physics.

Keywords: relativity principle, Galilean transformations, Lorentz transformations, special theory of relativity.

PACS: 01.40.-d, 01.65.+g, 04.20.-q

Received: May 13, 2014
Revised: November 8, 2015
Accepted: November 12, 2015

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2015.11.037648

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2016, 59:5, 475–479

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