Sunday, 14 June 2020

special relativity - Relativistic factor between coordinate acceleration and proper acceleration


I did a recent question about relativistic kinematics here: Generalizing a relativistic kinematics formula for spatial-acceleration dependence.


I have a confusion. In the textbooks I've seen, they put the relationship between proper acceleration and coordinate acceleration as



α=γ3dvdt


However, when I try to do the derivation myself, I get a factor of γ4 instead. I'm not sure where the error is.


My derivation is like this:


dxdτ=dxdtdtdτ=γdxdt


where we used dtdτ=γ


Now,


d2xdτ2=ddτ(γdxdt)=dγdτdxdt+γ2d2xdt2


dγdτ=γdγdt=γ(γ3c2dxdtd2xdt2)


d2xdτ2=γ4v2c2d2xdt2+γ2d2xdt2=γ2d2xdt2(γ2v2c2+1)=γ4d2xdt2


where on the last step, v=dxdt .



I don't understand where is the mistake.




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