Vol 2 - Landau, Lifshitz - The classical theory of fields (4th, 1994) (1) · Problem 7.1

Relativistic Mechanics

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · relativistic-uniformly-accelerated-motion

Problem

Determine the relativistic uniformly accelerated motion, i.e. the rectilinear motion for which the acceleration ww in the proper reference frame (at each instant of time) remains constant. The relativistically invariant condition for uniform acceleration must be expressed by the constancy of the four-scalar which coincides with w2w^2 in the proper reference frame: wiwi=const≡−w2c4.w^i w_i = \text{const} \equiv -\frac{w^2}{c^4}. Find the velocity v(t)v(t) and position x(t)x(t) given v=0v=0 and x=0x=0 at t=0t=0, and find the proper time as a function of tt.

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