Friday, June 8, 2012

1206.1372 (J. Muñoz Díaz)

Relativistic forces in Lagangian mechanics    [PDF]

J. Muñoz Díaz
We give a general definition of \emph{relativistic force} in the context of Lagrangian mechanics. Once this is done we prove that the only relativistic forces which are linear on the velocities are those coming from differential 2-forms defined on the configuration space. In this sense, electromagnetic fields provide a mechanical system with the simplest type of relativistic forces.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1372

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