• Title of article

    Implications of the disagreement between newtonian and relativistic low-speed trajectories

  • Author/Authors

    Boon Leong Lan، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوهفته نامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    534
  • To page
    537
  • Abstract
    It was shown recently for a chaotic and a nonchaotic slow-moving dynamical system that the Newtonian and special relativistic trajectories eventually disagree completely. Here, it is argued that once the Newtonian trajectory is completely different from the relativistic trajectory, Newtonian mechanics can no longer be used to study the trajectory of the slowmoving system. Special relativistic mechanics must be used instead. For a nonchaotic system, Newtonian mechanics can still be used for a very long time. However, for a strongly chaotic system, Newtonian mechanics cannot be used essentially from the outset.
  • Journal title
    Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
  • Record number

    903917