Angular Momentum, Mass-Center and the Inverse Square Law in Special Relativity
- 15 May 1935
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 47 (10) , 760-767
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.47.760
Abstract
It is assumed that the interaction of two particles takes place by means of streams of elementary impulses traveling with the velocity of light , an impulse of energy having a momentum . The momentum-energy 4-vector of a complete system and a skew-symmetric angular momentum tensor are defined in such a way that they are constants for the system, and the mass-center of the system is defined in such a way that it travels with uniform velocity relative to a Galilean frame. The formulae are similar to those of Newtonian mechanics. The two-body problem is discussed, and it is shown that for particles with constant proper masses and relative velocity small compared with , the inverse square law is a consequence of the mechanical laws of conservation. The whole theory is relativistically invariant.
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