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Xyius
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I just purchased a book on the introduction of special relativity and I seem to be stuck on a simple mathematical step. For some reason I just can't see this!
This is what it says:
Gotta love getting stuck on something when the book says its "Easy to see." Confidence -1.
This is what it says:
Although the general transformation above can be handled, we will
take its simplifed version in which O' is moving away from O along the
x-axis and O and O' coincided when t' = t = 0. It is easy to see that the
partial derivatives are related as follows:
[tex]\frac{∂}{∂x}=\frac{∂}{∂x'}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{∂}{∂y}=\frac{∂}{∂y'}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{∂}{∂z}=\frac{∂}{∂z'}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{∂}{∂t}=\frac{∂}{∂t'}-v\frac{∂}{∂x'}[/tex]
Gotta love getting stuck on something when the book says its "Easy to see." Confidence -1.