Relativistic Doppler Effect
Longitudinal, angular, and transverse relativistic Doppler shifts with explicit sign and angle conventions.
Longitudinal, angular, and transverse relativistic Doppler shifts with explicit sign and angle conventions.
Polarization ellipse derived from orthogonal field components, with linear and circular limits.
Momentum-based derivation of velocity-dependent relativistic mass, total energy, rest energy, and the massless energy-momentum relation.
Relativity of simultaneity, invariant causal order, and velocity transformation derived by differentiating the Lorentz equations.
Operational definitions of proper time and proper length, followed by complete Lorentz-transformation derivations.
A first-principles derivation of the direct and inverse Lorentz transformations and the invariant spacetime interval.
Inertial and non-inertial frames, the ether-drift test, its null result, and the two postulates of special relativity.
A free-particle momentum eigenfunction extends over all space. A localized free particle must therefore be a wave packet: a continuous superpo...
Let a time-independent Hamiltonian have a complete orthonormal set of discrete energy eigenfunctions,
For a non-relativistic particle in a scalar potential,