Talk:Lorentz transformation/Archive 9
Latest comment: 4 years ago by DVdm in topic Corrected First Equation
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Corrected First Equation
The first equation reads
which, on inspection, is incorrect. Note the physical units within the parenthesis must evaluate to time, but the last term has physical units that evaluate to time over velocity. This is due to the squaring of the speed of light in the denominator of the last term, which is apparently a typo. I have removed that square.
-- motorfingers : Talk 08:10, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- The equation
- is correct.
- You are confusing with this equation:
- See the literature. I have restored the correct equation. - DVdm (talk) 08:49, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- Whoops, it seemed so obvious in the middle of the night, and I did a quick web search at the time to verify the equation that seemed to validate what I thought at the time. I was reading to be time, not the actual physical units of distance squared divided by time. In the morning, the error seems as clearly false as it seemed to be clear in the middle of the night. Sorry, and thank you, DVdm, for the quick reversion. -- motorfingers : Talk 15:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- Middle of the night is a fun place alright, but sometimes a dangerous one
- DVdm (talk) 18:17, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
- Middle of the night is a fun place alright, but sometimes a dangerous one
- Whoops, it seemed so obvious in the middle of the night, and I did a quick web search at the time to verify the equation that seemed to validate what I thought at the time. I was reading to be time, not the actual physical units of distance squared divided by time. In the morning, the error seems as clearly false as it seemed to be clear in the middle of the night. Sorry, and thank you, DVdm, for the quick reversion. -- motorfingers : Talk 15:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
