Recent content by ben.g95

Where did you get xo=xo'/a and L=L'/a? I follow you completely minus those two.

I don't mean to sound like a jerk here, but could you please post your progress? Thanks.

Good, I couldn't get anywhere with it.

I'm not really sure... it seems to come up in the next term (lost on that one as well), but I don't know what hat he pulled it out of.

That was great! You are a physics god among men. Now on to the tougher stuff (for me at least). Where does he get dx=1/a from?

When plugging in a and b, I keep getting x'=ax-act and ct'=bx+bct and getting stuck there. I'm a beginner at this, could you walk me through it (thanks for being patient)? I feel like I'm close but I don't know where to go next.

How did he plug in constants a and b to obtain formulas (5)?

Hey, I'm just learning the ins and outs of special relativity and I'm having a little trouble with the derivation of the Lorentz Transformation. I bought Einstein's book 'Relativity: the special and general theories' and this is described in an appendix. For background, the appendix is linked...