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Clocks, Cameras, and the Lorentz Contraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Rev J Riversdale Colthurst
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In a previous paper, which appeared in The Mathematical Gazette for December 1938, the writer showed that, assuming the concept of a rigid rod, it is possible to derive the fundamental formulae of special Relativity from the consideration of photographs taken by two observers in relative uniform motion.

The extension of this method of approach to the consideration of the relativity of time measures appears to furnish some interesting results.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 23 , Issue 257 , December 1939 , pp. 443 - 447
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1939

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