Article View: sci.physics
Article #7621Re: simulating relativistic motion
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1987 06:23
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1987 06:23
23 lines
1489 bytes
1489 bytes
A long time ago, I read a book dealing with Relativity, interstellar travel and like subjects. In it was a form of the relativistiic Doppler shift equation that I have seen nowhere else. I had copied it down but a few years later it and a number of other useful but obscure formulas were lost when someone stole my briefcase and the notebook with the formulas. What this formula (or pair of formulas, it's been 20 years and things are rather fuzzy) gave was not only the frequency shift, but the angular shift for objects that were at an angle to the direction of travel. As I never got much past algebra it is somewhat impratical for me to attempt to derive the equation myself. If someone has such a formula would they please mail it to me? Thank you. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<633@bucket.UUCP>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonardReferences:
<1573@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.games.programmer,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: simulating relativistic motion Keywords: relativity, graphics, flight simulators Message-ID: <633@bucket.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 87 06:23:55 GMT References: <1573@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR Lines: 23