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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS
Thomas precession: correct and incorrect solutions
G. B. Malykin Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
A wealth of different expressions for the frequency of the Thomas precession (TP) can be found in the literature, with the consequence that this issue has been discussed over a long period of time. It is shown that the correct result was obtained in the works of several authors, which were published more than forty years ago but remained unnoticed against the background of numerous erroneous works. Several TP-related physical paradoxes formulated primarily to disprove the special relativity theory are shown to be fallacious. Different techniques for deriving the correct expression are considered and the reasons for the emergence of the main incorrect expressions for the TP frequency are analyzed.
Received: August 23, 2005 Revised: May 16, 2006
Citation:
G. B. Malykin, “Thomas precession: correct and incorrect solutions”, UFN, 176:8 (2006), 865–882; Phys. Usp., 49:8 (2006), 837–853
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