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Corina Nafornita

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arXiv2005

Graphical aids for relativistic optics

The paper presents a relativistic space-time diagram, which displays in true values the space (Cartesian and polar) and the time coordinates of the same event detected from two inertial reference frames in relative motion related by the Lorentz-Einstein transformations, the aberration angles and the Doppler shifted periods and wavelengths. We use it in order to illustrate the reflection of light on moving mirrors (horizontal and vertical) and the way in which a single observer could measure the length of a moving rod. It displays in true values the space-time coordinates of the same event generated by a light signal.

physics.gen-ph↗
arXiv2004

Three levels of understanding physical relativity: Galileo's relativity, Up-to-date Galileo's relativity and Einstein's relativity: A historical survey

We present a way of teaching Einstein's special relativity. It starts with Galileo's relativity, the learners know from previous lectures. The lecture underlines that we can have three transformation equations for the space-time coordinates of the same event, which lead to absolute clock readings, time intervals and lengths (Galileo's relativity), to absolute clock readings but to relative time intervals and lengths (up-to-date Galileo transformations) and to relative clock readings time intervals and lengths.

physics.gen-ph↗
arXiv2004

"An analysis of the classical Doppler Effect"[1] revisited

After having shown that the formula which describes the Doppler effect in the general case holds only in the case of the "very high" frequency assumption, we derive free of assumptions Doppler formulas for two scenarios presented in the revisited paper.

physics.gen-ph↗