Re: [Phys-l] Relativity Question

[Ken Caviness <caviness@southern.edu>]

I said:

> that according to each observer, the clocks of the other reference
> frame are not synchronized with each other, in fact their readings are
> position-dependent, offset by (v x / c^2), and of course they are all
> "running slow" by a factor of 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2).  

That should have been:

> that according to each observer, the clocks of the other reference
> frame are not synchronized with each other, in fact their readings are
> position-dependent, offset by gamma (v x / c^2), and of course they are all
> "running slow" by a factor of gamma = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2).  

[The extra factor, gamma, and term, gamma v x / c^2, in the Lorentz equations which if v<<c reduce to 1 and 0, respectively, returning the Gallilean transformation equations.]