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Note on the relativistic elastic head-on collision

Författare:	Essén, H.
Dokumenttyp:	Artikel
Tillstånd:	Publicerad
Tidskrift:	European journal of physics
Volym:	23 565-568
År:	2002

Abstract

A 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.