Thomas precession
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2008-07-01
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Indian Academy of Sciences
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Thomas precession is a curious effect in special relativity which is purely kinematical in origin and illustrates some important features of the Lorentz transformation. It also has a beautiful geometric interpretation. We will explore these in this and the next installment.
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Thomas Precession, Lorentz transformation, Space