Lengths on rotating platforms

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1998-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9808001v2

Physics

Classical Physics

14 pages, 2 figures. RevTex. To be published in Foundations of Physics. Section on the metric on the disk will become a separa

Scientific paper

10.1023/A:1021674620702

The paper treats the issue of the length of a rotating circumference as seen from on board the moving disk and from an inertial reference frame. It is shown that, properly defining a measuring process, the result is in both cases 2piR thus dissolving the Ehrenfest paradox. The same holds good when considering that, for the rotating observer, the perceived radius coincides with the curvature radius of a space-time helix and a complete round trip corresponds to an angle which differs from the one seen by the inertial observer. The apparent contradiction with the Lorentz contraction is discussed.

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