Translation talk:On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
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I was just going through this paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", and in heading 3, which is "Theory of Co-ordinate and Time-Transformation from a stationary system to a system which moves relatively to this with uniform velocity.", I didn't understand the substituition x' = x-vt. First of all, the system in which x',y and z are independent of time is the k system, which is moving at a constant velocity w.r.t. K. But there it has been given otherwise. Also, if we are using x' = x-vt, aren't we going back to the Galilean transformations? But the purpose of this paper was to show that the Galilean transformation are not exactly correct, then why does it start from there?
- For a nice discussion on this topic, see this article. --D.H (talk) 09:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
longitudinal mass?[edit]
Was the "translator" overly eager to add square roots, or is the erroneous equation for longitudinal mass in section 10 a wiki error? 83.79.31.102 23:29, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- It was an error in the translation. --D.H (talk) 08:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
- The notation now corresponds to Einstein's original notation. --D.H (talk) 17:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)