{"id":412410,"date":"2017-05-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=d66790231d89dd3089abc2a6360b4c76"},"modified":"2017-05-18T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:00:00","slug":"fermi-walker-transport-and-thomas-precession-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=412410","title":{"rendered":"Fermi\u2013Walker transport and Thomas precession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exact derivation of the Thomas precession formula is presented based on the Fermi\u2013Walker<br \/>\ntransport equation. Given that the Thomas precession effect is not a particularly intuitive<br \/>\nphenomenon, such that when discovered in 1925 it took by surprise even experts in relativity theory,<br \/>\nEinstein included, an alternative perspective can be useful at an intermediate level for physics<br \/>\nstudents. The existing literature linking the Thomas precession to Fermi\u2013Walker transport use<br \/>\ngeometric algebra as mathematical tool. Here the mathematics is kept within the limits of the usual<br \/>\nvector and tensor algebra commonly used in special relativity theory at a level appropriate for<br \/>\nadvanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exact derivation of the Thomas precession formula is presented based on the Fermi\u2013Walker<br \/>\ntransport equation. Given that the Thomas precession effect is not a particularly intuitive<br \/>\nphenomenon, such that when discovered in 1925 it took by surpris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-412410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}