Covariant formulation of Hooke's law
Abstract
Introducing a four-vector strain and a four-force stress, Hooke's law is written as a four-vector equation. This formulation is shown to clarify seemingly paradoxical results in connection with uniformly accelerated motion, and rotational motion with angular acceleration.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1981AmJPh..49...28G
- Keywords:
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- 03.30.+p;
- Special relativity