Wednesday, 4 December 2019

special relativity - Is the potential energy in a compressed spring a Lorentz invariant?


The total energy of an object comes from the time part of the four-momentum, and so isn't a Lorentz invariant. On the other hand, is the potential energy of a compressed spring a Lorentz invariant?




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