Dirac’s light-cone coordinate system
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 50 (8) , 721-724
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.12737
Abstract
It is shown that Dirac’s light‐cone coordinate system provides an effective method for treating the geometry of Lorentz transformation in a rectangular coordinate system. Transformation properties of the coordinate variables and those of the derivatives are discussed in detail. The Lorentz boost along a given direction is shown to be a coordinate transformation in which ’’cross products’’ are preserved. It is pointed out that the Lorentz boost is a symplectic transformation.Keywords
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