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In the theory of relativity, four-acceleration is a four-vector (vector in four-dimensional spacetime) that is analogous to classical acceleration (a three-dimensional vector). Four-acceleration has applications in areas such as the annihilation of antiprotons, resonance of strange particles and radiation of an accelerated charge. == Four-acceleration in inertial coordinates == In inertial coordinates in special relativity, four-acceleration is defined as the change in four-velocity over the particle's proper time: : , where : and : and is the Lorentz factor for the speed . A dot above a variable indicates a derivative with respect to the coordinate time in a given reference frame, not the proper time . In an instantaneously co-moving inertial reference frame , and , i.e. in such a reference frame : Geometrically, four-acceleration is a curvature vector of a world line.〔 〕 Therefore, the magnitude of the four-acceleration (which is an invariant scalar) is equal to the proper acceleration that a moving particle "feels" moving along a world line. The world lines having constant magnitude of four-acceleration are Minkowski-circles i.e. hyperbolas (see ''hyperbolic motion'') The scalar product of a four-velocity and the corresponding four-acceleration is always 0. Even at relativistic speeds four-acceleration is related to the four-force such that : where ''m'' is the invariant mass of a particle. When the four-force is zero one has gravitation acting alone, and the four-vector version of Newton's second law above reduces to the geodesic equation. A particle executing geodesic motion has zero value for each component of the acceleration four vector.This conforms to the fact that Gravity is not a force. The radial component four-acceleration of a body under free-fall,incidentally, is zero.This identifies the fact that the spatial part of four-acceleration is different from what we understand by acceleration in common day to day experience for example in the case of an apple falling from a tree. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Four-acceleration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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