Re: A question on inelastic relativistic collisions

["Miguel A. Santos" <msantos@ETSE.URV.ES>]

Bob Sciamanda wrote:
> I finally located a reference that was sleeping in the back of my mind:
>
> "Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology",  Richard C. Tolman, Oxford,
> printings 1934 -1962
> has several chapters on thermodynamic implications of both SR and GR.
> For SR he arrives at T = T_0*Sqrt(1-[u/c]^2} as the temperature of an object
> with speed u (Eq 69.19, pg 158).
 I would say that Pauli's book on Relativity (may 'Special R.'?)
also discusses this. May be even in Kubo's or Pathria's books on
Statistical Mechanics can be found such a discussion.
 May be someone else can confirm this.

 Regards,
        Miguel A. Santos
        msantos@etse.urv.es