Relativistic Point Particles and Classical Elastic Strings
Abstract
We extend the previous work of Olivier Costa de Beauregard regarding the isomorphism between the equation describing the motion of relativistic point particles and the equation describing the static equilibrium of classical elastic strings, by comparing the Lagrangians of these two systems.
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