The Thomas rotation

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 837-847

  Costella, John P ^a   Mckellar, Bruce H J ^a   Rawlinson, Andrew A ^a   Stephenson, Gerard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

03.30; 03.65; 03.70

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044528513     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: 19432909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1371010     Document Type: Article

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