SPIN PRECESSION IN CLASSICAL RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4077660
The motion of a point particle with spin according to relativistic classical mechanics is shown to possess the following properties: (1) A free particle is not required to move along a straight line but may move along a helix in space or along a hyperbola in space-time; (2) the helical and hyperbolic motions are the classical analogues of zitterbewegung and pair production, respectively; (3) the effective mass M of the particle is in general not equal to its rest mass; (4) in a magnetic field B, the particle automatically possesses a magnetic moment eB sigma /Mc, where sigma is the spin; and (5) m is a constant of the motion in a uniform electric or magnetic field. (D.L.C.)
- Research Organization:
- Space Technology Labs., Inc. Physical Research Lab., Los Angeles
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-012416
- OSTI ID:
- 4077660
- Report Number(s):
- NP-9904; STL/TR-60-000-GR-433
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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