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Article
Note on the relativistic elastic head-on collision
| Authors: |
Essén, H. |
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Article |
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Published |
| Journal: |
European journal of physics |
| Volume: |
23
565-568 |
| Year: |
2002 |
AbstractA short, elegant, instructive, and explicit solution for the relativistic elastic head-on collision is presented. It uses the invariance of the relative speed and a suitable Lorentz transformation of the total momentum four-vector before and after the collision.
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