Can Special Relativity Explain Accelerating Reference Frames?

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So apparently SR can handle non-inertial reference frames, and there are supposedly some interesting effects that come about, like non-constancy of the speed of light. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a treatment of accelerating frames in SR (like a textbook)?
 
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MTW's "Gravitation" has a good and very thorough treatment of accelerated observers, but it does use tensors.
 
pervect said:
MTW's "Gravitation" has a good and very thorough treatment of accelerated observers, but it does use tensors.
IMO the fact that it uses tensors is a benefit. It makes the transition to GR much easier later.
 
Mentz114 said:

I looked through the book, but I didn't find anything. A bit weird, didn't Rindler find a way to describe accelerating reference frames?

pervect said:
MTW's "Gravitation" has a good and very thorough treatment of accelerated observers, but it does use tensors.

Does MTW look at accelerating frames from an SR perspective?
 
There's a good derivation of Rindler coordinates on p. 240-252 of this book, which for now anyway is all viewable on google books.
 
JesseM said:
There's a good derivation of Rindler coordinates on p. 240-252 of this book, which for now anyway is all viewable on google books.

Interesting writeup. I shall have to bone up abit. Thanx.

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