How Do Lorentz Transformations Confirm a Rocket's Motion in Special Relativity?

[Onias]

Homework Statement

Show that the primed frame corresponds to a 'rocket' frame moving at speed v in the x direction relative to the unprimed frame.

Variables: x, x', t, t', y, y', z, z'

Homework Equations

ct' = γct - βγx
x' = γx - βγct
y' = y
z' = z

The Attempt at a Solution

None, I'm not sure what the question is asking of me!

 

[tiny-tim]

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Show that the primed frame corresponds to a 'rocket' frame moving at speed v in the x direction relative to the unprimed frame.

Variables: x, x', t, t', y, y', z, z'
…
ct' = γct - βγx
x' = γx - βγct
y' = y
z' = z
…
I'm not sure what the question is asking of me!

Hi Onias ! Welcome to PF!

(are those equations part of the question?)

I'm not sure what the question is asking of you, either …

I'd have thought that those equations are the definition of the new frame …

unless they're asking you to say what v is, in terms of γ and β