Spatial geometry of the rotating disk and its non-rotating counterpart

Details Spatial geometry of the rotating disk and its non-rotating counterpart Spatial geometry of the rotating disk and its non-rotating counterpart

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2488v2

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10 pages, 3 figures, this is the version accepted by American Journal of Physics; I had to remove the special relativity part,

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A general relativistic description of a disk rotating at constant angular velocity is given. It is argued that conceptually this direct approach poses fewer problems than the special relativistic one. For observers on the disk, the geometry of their proper space is hyperbolic. This has interesting consequences concerning their interpretation of the geometry of a non-rotating disk having the same radius. The influence of clock synchronization on spatial measurements is discussed.

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