Physics – Classical Physics
Scientific paper
2000-03-02
Physics
Classical Physics
11 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
This paper presents an intuitive, geometrical derivation of the relativistic addition of velocities, and of the electromagnetic interaction between two uniformly moving charged particles, based on 2 spatial + 1 temporal dimensional Minkowski diagrams. We calculate the relativistic addition of velocities by projecting the world-line of the particle on the spatio-temporal planes of the reference frames considered. We calculate the real component of the electro- magnetic 4-force, in the proper reference frame of the source particle, starting from the Coulomb force generated by a charged particle at rest. We then obtain the imaginary component of the 4-force, in the same reference frame, from the requirement that the 4-force be orthogonal to the 4-velocity. The 4-force is then projected on a real 3 dimensional space to get the Lorentz force.
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