Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska or Minkovskaya; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy; Hebrew: מינקובסקי, Russian: Минковский) is a surname of Polish origin. It may refer to:
Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility
Alyona Minkovski (born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter
Eugène Minkowski (1885–1972), French psychiatrist
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:
Minkowski addition
Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
Minkowski diagram
Minkowski distance
Minkowski functional
Minkowski inequality
Minkowski space
Null vector (Minkowski space)
Minkowski plane
Minkowski's theorem
Minkowski's question mark function
Abraham–Minkowski controversy
Hasse–Minkowski theorem
Minkowski separation theorem
Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula
Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist
Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist
Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer
draw a minkowski space-time diagram for s and s' showing x- and ctaxis as well ass the x'- and ct'-axis. the x-axis and ct axis will span from 0-5m. everwhere x'-axis ct'=0 and likewise for ct'-axis x'=0. [(v=0.6c)(t=t'=0, x=x'=0)]
so any way I start out with drawing ct and x. like a normal...
Please help me in any way you can. I'm a beginner physics student (entering undergraduate engineering) and currently self-taught.
1.) Minkowski space is illustrated in one of my books as a cone, with it's apex as the "origin", the side as the "light cone", the bend curvature inside the cone...
Why does everyone use +---/-+++ Minkowski spacetime over ++++ Euclidean spacetime? Minkowski spacetime preserves spacetime intervals under Lorentz transformations but so does Euclidean spacetime under equivalent rotational transformations from which SR can also be deduced.
(someone show me how...
Maybe this is really easy, but...
Can someone show me how the sign reversal between the space and time components of Minkowski spacetime make its intervals Lorentz invariant (mathematical derivation) ? Thanks... :wink:
Electromagnetism being mediated by space-time rather than particles or waves is based on the validity of the Minkowski space-time metric.
Energy held by a quantum object A at an event 1 can jump to a quantum object B at an event 2 provided the proper interval separating the two events has...
I've just been thinking (prolly a bad idea): Lorentzian metrics aren't actually metrics at all are they? In fact they're not even pseudometrics, so what are they exactly and why do we call them metrics (Actually I can probably guess that as they perform the same role a mteric does and they are...