Can Special Relativity Explain Accelerating Reference Frames?

[ralqs]

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)?

 

[Mentz114]

I fairly sure Rindler's book deals with it

http://www.ebook3000.com/Introduction-to-Special-Relativity_103498.html

 

[pervect]

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

 

[Dale]

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.

 

[ralqs]

I fairly sure Rindler's book deals with it

http://www.ebook3000.com/Introduction-to-Special-Relativity_103498.html

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?

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?

 

[JesseM]

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.

 

[GrayGhost]

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.

GrayGhost