In physics, relativistic angular momentum refers to the mathematical formalisms and physical concepts that define angular momentum in special relativity...
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Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum. It is an important physical...
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mechanics, angular momentum coupling is the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate angular momenta...
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angular momentum tensor is sometimes called a bivector because in the 3D viewpoint it is two vectors (one of these, the conventional angular momentum...
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Spin (physics) (redirect from Intrinsic angular momentum)
interaction with spin require relativistic quantum mechanics or quantum field theory. The existence of electron spin angular momentum is inferred from experiments...
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non-relativistic QM, the angular momentum operator is formed from the classical pseudovector definition L = r × p. In RQM, the position and momentum operators...
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Special relativity (redirect from Relativistic velocities)
antisymmetric tensor is the relativistic angular momentum, which has six components: three are the classical angular momentum, and the other three are related...
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mechanics, the angular momentum operator is one of several related operators analogous to classical angular momentum. The angular momentum operator plays...
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Electric dipole spin resonance Kugel–Khomskii coupling Lamb shift Relativistic angular momentum Spherical basis Stark effect In fact it's the electric field...
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another vector quantity N = (E/c2)r − tp related to boosts, see Relativistic angular momentum for details. For the case of the E and B fields, the transformations...
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energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called relativistic energy)...
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In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (pl.: momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and...
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operator defined from the momentum and angular momentum, used in the quantum-relativistic description of angular momentum. It is named after Wolfgang...
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In general relativity, rotational motion is described by the relativistic angular momentum tensor, including the spin tensor, which enter the equations...
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Photon (redirect from Momentum of photon)
carries spin angular momentum, which is related to photon polarization. (Beams of light also exhibit properties described as orbital angular momentum of light)...
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Pauli matrices (section Relativistic quantum mechanics)
the same algebraic properties as the σk matrices. However, relativistic angular momentum is not a three-vector, but a second order four-tensor. Hence...
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Belinfante–Rosenfeld stress–energy tensor Poincaré group Lorentz group Relativistic angular momentum Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector...
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Azimuthal quantum number (redirect from Angular momentum quantum number)
for an atomic orbital that determines its orbital angular momentum and describes aspects of the angular shape of the orbital. The azimuthal quantum number...
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Planck constant (redirect from Angular-momentum quantum)
relates the energy of a photon to its angular frequency, and the linear momentum of a particle to the angular wavenumber of its associated matter wave...
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Larmor precession (redirect from Larmor angular frequency)
and the angular momentum. The angular momentum vector J → {\displaystyle {\vec {J}}} precesses about the external field axis with an angular frequency...
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Precession (section Relativistic (Einsteinian))
applied to the body. In torque-free precession, the angular momentum is a constant, but the angular velocity vector changes orientation with time. What...
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the analytic properties of scattering as a function of angular momentum, where the angular momentum is not restricted to be an integer multiple of ħ but...
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Light front quantization (section Angular momentum)
non-relativistic system, consisting of two spinless particles with the relative momentum k → {\displaystyle {\vec {k}}} and with total angular momentum l...
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Spin-1/2 (section Non-relativistic quantum mechanics)
magnetic field, which then splits into N parts depending on the intrinsic angular momentum of the atoms. It was found that for silver atoms, the beam was split...
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Kinetic energy (redirect from Relativistic kinetic energy)
it is 417 J/kg (on a non-relativistic kinetic energy of 5 GJ/kg). The relativistic relation between kinetic energy and momentum is given by E k = p 2 c...
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Four-gradient (section As a component of the SR Hamilton–Jacobi equation in relativistic analytic mechanics)
symmetry of the stress–energy tensor, one can show that angular momentum (relativistic angular momentum) is also conserved: ∂ ν ( x α T μ ν − x μ T α ν ) =...
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orbital angular momentum (the angular momentum about the axis of rotation) and spin angular momentum, which is the object's angular momentum about its...
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from one discrete orbit to another. Bohr supposed that the electron's angular momentum is quantized with possible values: L = n ℏ {\displaystyle L=n\hbar...
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Wavenumber (redirect from Angular wavenumber)
expressed in SI units of cycles per metre or reciprocal metre (m−1). Angular wavenumber, defined as the wave phase divided by time, is a quantity with...
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In other reference frames, where the system's momentum is non-zero, the total mass (a.k.a. relativistic mass) of the system is greater than the invariant...
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