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Space-time on the rotating disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Behram Kurşunogğlu
Affiliation:
Fitzwillam HouseCambridge

Extract

1. Introduction. In a recent paper Clark (1) has dealt with the problem of the rotating disk, the material of which is such that the waves of dilatation in this particular material travel with the velocity of light. The material of the disk is supposed to be under an isotropic stress p when in a strained state, and the relation between stress p and the dilatation Δ is found to be connected by an expression

where a = density in the unstrained state, and Δ is given by

Ui (i = 1, 2, 3) are the components of the strain.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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