Thomas Precession and Extended Structures

Abstract

It is shown that Weinstein and Whitmire in extending the Thomas precession to an extended rotating disk have made implicit assumptions about integrability, common disk times, and the disk proper frame which have not been justified.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1972
Accession Number
AD0753306

Entities

People

  • R. G. Newburgh

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Electrons
  • Lepidoptera
  • Massachusetts
  • Motion
  • Particles
  • Precession
  • Rotation
  • Security
  • Shear Stresses

Fields of Study

  • Physics
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics.