Beta and Gamma Values in Relativity That Are Easy to Use

• Autores: Steven L. Morris
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 214-214
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fourteen pairs of β and 1/γ values are presented that each contain seven or fewer digits. For each pair, the associated value of γ is expressed as a fraction whose denominator, multiplied by γ, generates a product with five or fewer digits. Such numbers can be manipulated by handheld calculators without round-off error, permitting exact results for equations involving the factor γ as well as 1/γ in Einstein’s special theory of relativity.

    Similar student-friendly examples have recently been published for the calculation of Poynting vectors1 and relativistic velocities.2