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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

    Looks like you did. Looks like you did it. You can get your new second-order terms because have your new terms from your first-order approximation,
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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

    Try plugging in t+dt into vt' for t+dt=t'
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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

    Oh ****. Your right. I'm working on it. I didn't read the whole problem
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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

    I added more.
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    Derive Lorentz transformations in perturbation theory

    What you do is expand both terms in the dementor as a Taylor series. Why this can be done is that it needs to be assumed that v/c << 1 so that the rest of the terms in the Taylor series will die out as (v/c)^n when n>1. For the units you are working with, v<<c. The application makes more sense...
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