The Lorentz Transform

Me and my friend Akarsh Simha were browsing through XKCD’s archives and came across this one. Being students of Physics, I thought we should extend this to a Boost too, and here is the result: :-)

lorentz_boost
Edit: I also wish to thank Dr. Suresh Govindarajan for the motivation behind this.

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Published in: on May 20, 2009 at 9:40 am Comments (6)

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  1. On May 20, 2009 at 6:56 pm Santosh Said:

    Dude,this blog is amazing I never knew Naveen was a poet before browsing this blog.

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  2. On May 20, 2009 at 8:20 pm Akarsh Said:

    Well – it wasn’t my idea, though. It was Dr. Suresh’s idea.

    Apparently, he gave it as an assignment to the minor guys during his Special Relativity lectures.

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  3. On May 21, 2009 at 8:38 am SG Said:

    Yes, I had given this as a fun part of the assignment for the minor students. It is nice to see someone carry it out. I am used to no one doing ungraded assignments :-)

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  4. On May 29, 2009 at 4:26 pm Akarsh Simha Said:

    @SG: But you convert ungraded assignments into quiz and end-sem problems!

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  5. On May 30, 2009 at 7:53 pm SG Said:

    @Akarsh: What is wrong with that? That will teach you to solve them next time around :-)

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  6. On August 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm Suresh Govindarajan: PH350 Classical Physics (Fall 2009) Said:

    [...] If you have seen this xkcd cartoon for the rotation matrix, here is one for a Lorentz boost (courtesy Naveen Sharma): [...]

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