{"id":82349,"date":"2015-04-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=186a73328f09d524c2a01d299431ecf4"},"modified":"2015-04-30T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"subtleties-of-the-thomas-precession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=82349","title":{"rendered":"Subtleties of the Thomas precession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rarely mentioned fact that a pure boost in general distorts the axes of the boosted frame is<br \/>\nshown to influence significantly the Thomas precession effect as observed in the laboratory frame.<br \/>\nAs a result the Thomas precession appears to be accompanied by a \u2018wobbling\u2019 motion of the axes of<br \/>\nprecessing rest frame connected with a moving particle. A simple method to get an exact solution for<br \/>\nthe development of the orientation of the frame axes in the case of uniform rotation of the particle<br \/>\nis given. This is equivalent to finding the orientation of the spin vector used in the BMT theory.<br \/>\nThe discrepancy known from the literature in describing the spin, as performing a uniform rotation<br \/>\nor as revealing in the same situation some additional oscillatory behaviour, is explained by<br \/>\npointing out two conceptually different approaches, \u2018hybrid\u2019 and fully consistent, in presenting the<br \/>\nThomas precession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rarely mentioned fact that a pure boost in general distorts the axes of the boosted frame is<br \/>\nshown to influence significantly the Thomas precession effect as observed in the laboratory frame.<br \/>\nAs a result the Thomas precession appears to be accomp&#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-82349","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\/82349","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=82349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}