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Re: rapidity

----- Original Message -----
From: David Bowman <dbowman@TIGER.GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: rapidity
. . .
Here the imaginary 'rotation angle' [theta] is just i*[psi] where [psi]
is the rapidity.

I hope this helps with the conceptual/physical interpretation.

Yes, this was swimming in my foggy memory. It is probably the closest we
can come to a "conceptual/physical" interpretation of [psi]. Thanks.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor