Aberration and radiation pressure reflected by a moving minor are examples of the Klein, one-way Doppler shift, and Poincare, two-way Doppler shift disc models of hyperbolic geometry, respectively Aberration, like the Thomas precession, is related to the angular defect, and is a kinematical effect lather than relativistic At the angle of parallelism, determined by a stationary observer looking at a moving object in the direction normal to its motion, the rotation of the object is related to its Lorentz contraction that an observer sees traveling at the same speed as the object The origin of the Lorentz contraction is the angular defect, while the angle of parallelism is an asymptotic limit, providing the unique link between circular and hyperbolic functions The relative velocity provides an upper limit on the angle of incidence with the radiation pressure vanishing at the angle of parallelism Two-way, second-order Doppler shifts can be used to establish experimentally the existence of an angle of parallelism
Aberration and radiation pressure in the Klein and Poincare models
LAVENDA, Bernard Howard
2010-01-01
Abstract
Aberration and radiation pressure reflected by a moving minor are examples of the Klein, one-way Doppler shift, and Poincare, two-way Doppler shift disc models of hyperbolic geometry, respectively Aberration, like the Thomas precession, is related to the angular defect, and is a kinematical effect lather than relativistic At the angle of parallelism, determined by a stationary observer looking at a moving object in the direction normal to its motion, the rotation of the object is related to its Lorentz contraction that an observer sees traveling at the same speed as the object The origin of the Lorentz contraction is the angular defect, while the angle of parallelism is an asymptotic limit, providing the unique link between circular and hyperbolic functions The relative velocity provides an upper limit on the angle of incidence with the radiation pressure vanishing at the angle of parallelism Two-way, second-order Doppler shifts can be used to establish experimentally the existence of an angle of parallelismI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.