The self-consistency of the kinematics of special relativity, II

Physics Essays

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-333

  Good, I J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition of velocities; Doubting Thomas; Lorentzian matrices; Quasiparallelism; Special relativity kinematics; Twin paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031515374     PISSN: 08361398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4006/1.3028719     Document Type: Article

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