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I have several questions:

  1. who came up with this and is there any analysis of this math and physics?

  2. Does this relationship have any realizations or conclusions that can be drawn?

here are some links for those interested

Time Dilation Link

Mass Energy Link

Here is the math:

$$(1)\qquad E = m{c}^2$$ $$(2)\qquad \Delta t_1 = \frac{\Delta t_2}{\sqrt{1-\left({\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}}$$

for easily seeing the binomial expansion of $(2)$

$$let \quad x = {-\left({\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}$$

rearranging of $(2)$ $$\Delta t_1 = \frac{\Delta t_2}{\sqrt{1+x}}$$

$$\frac{\Delta t_1}{\Delta t_2} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1+x}}$$

$$\frac{\Delta t_1}{\Delta t_2} = \left({1+x}\right)^{-1 \over 2}$$

$$(3) \qquad \left({1+x}\right)^{-1 \over 2}$$

Applying the binomial expansion on equation $(3)$ to get the following: Fractional power binomial expansion link

$$\left({1+x}\right)^{-1 \over 2} = 1{x}^0 + -\frac{1}{2}{x}^1 + \frac{3}{8}{x}^2 + -\frac{5}{16}{x}^3 + \frac{35}{128}{x}^4+ \cdots$$

essentially the coefficients are $${n \choose q}\quad or \quad{-\frac{1}{2} \choose q}$$ where n is $-\frac{1}{2}$ and $q$ incriments up by 1 starting at 0, I think.

also

$$ -1 \lt x \lt 1$$

now substituting $$x = {-\left({\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}$$

$$\left({1-\left({\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}\right)^{-1 \over 2} = 1\bullet{\left({-\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}^0 + -\frac{1}{2}\bullet{\left({-\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}^1 + \frac{3}{8}\bullet{\left({-\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}^2 + -\frac{5}{16}\bullet{\left({-\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}^3 + \frac{35}{128}\bullet{\left({-\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2\right)}^4+ \cdots$$

"$\bullet$" symbol here is just a multiply,because the parenthesis are getting crowded here. So removing the "$\bullet$" and the parenthesis and simplafying we get this:

$$\left({1-{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2}\right)^{-1 \over 2} = 1 + \frac{1}{2}{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2 + \frac{3}{8}{{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^4} + \frac{5}{16}{{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^6} + \frac{35}{128}{{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^8}+ \cdots$$

then from here if you take equation $(1)$ and multply it with this approximation of equation $(3)$ we get:

$$(E)(\frac{\Delta t_1}{\Delta t_2}) = (1)(m{c}^2) +(\frac{1}{2}{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2)(m{c}^2) +(\frac{3}{8}{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^4)(m{c}^2) +(\frac{5}{16}{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^6)(m{c}^2) +(\frac{35}{128}{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^8)(m{c}^2) + \cdots$$

simplifying a bit

$$(E)(\frac{\Delta t_1}{\Delta t_2}) = m{c}^2 +\frac{1}{2}m{v}^2 +\frac{3}{8}m\frac{v^4}{c^2} +\frac{5}{16}m\frac{v^6}{c^4} +\frac{35}{128}m\frac{v^8}{c^6} + \cdots$$

now $$ -1 \lt -{\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2 \lt 1$$ $$ 1 \gt {\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)}^2 \gt -1$$ $$ c \gt v \gt ic$$

My Analysis:

My initial analysis of this sees the Kinetic energy portion of the 1/2 fraction and I do not know why that is there. Is their some other meaning for the other parts of the equation?

The units for this are going to be energy (Joules) and the farther elements only get small and less significant to the major contribution of the first 5 elements.

Rewording my questions:

Did I make a mistake, or am I allowed to mathematically multiply these two equations?

Are their any conclusions to be drawn from this math?

I know someone else came up with this, where can I learn more?

Also what does the boundary condition of v mean?

Thanks for any input into this! (let me know if there are other tags for this question)

Qmechanic
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  • That looks ok to me. Just be careful that you don't accidentally lose the negative sign in front of $\left(\frac{v}{c}\right)^2$. ;) BTW, it's common to use $\beta = v/c$. Another convention is to use units where $c=1$, eg, measure time in seconds, and distance in light-seconds. Regarding the kinetic energy term, my answer here has some relevant info: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/595175/123208 You might also find this one interesting: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/598415/123208 – PM 2Ring Mar 10 '21 at 05:14
  • @PM2Ring thank you for the links I really enjoyed learning new information. I only scratched the surface in my physics courses on this topic so thank you for sharing more information! – AndrewDonaldStockton Mar 10 '21 at 22:05

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$E=\gamma(v) m_0 c^2$

If you Taylor expand $\gamma$ then you get something like your expansion. Your expansion looks right. The extra terms are just what have to be there for $E$ to be what it is, $E=\gamma(v) m_0 c^2$. Those terms are a lot of little corrections that add up to the right thing.