Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – XIV – angle between colliding rod and slot in a diagonally moving frame

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – XIV – angle between colliding rod and slot in a diagonally moving frame
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I continue my post series on the 2-dimensional rod/slot paradox in Special Relativity. In this post we perform a Lorentz Transformation of the rod from a frame A, which we previously used to describe a collision scenario, to a diagonally … Read More

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – III – Lorentz transformation causes inclination angles

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – III – Lorentz transformation causes inclination angles
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In the 2nd post of this series about a variant of the rod/slot paradox in Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR] we defined a collision scenario between a vertically moving rod and a horizontally moving slot in a special reference … Read More

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – I – seeming contradictions between reference frames

Special relativity and the rod/slot paradox – I – seeming contradictions between reference frames
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One of the topics in physics that drove me almost crazy 48 years ago was a paradox related to the relativistic length contraction effect. This effect is an elementary consequence of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity [STR]. Paradoxes in this … Read More

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