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I am reading Matter and Light by de Broglie and a little bit confused about how he deduced the equation of

$v_g := \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = v$

I understand that a wave that is static in one inertial frame could be written as

$ \phi=e^{2\pi i \nu_0 (t-\tau_0)}$

and if you see this wave from moving frame of reference (that moves $v$ to $-x$)

$ \phi=e^{2\pi i \nu_0 \left(\frac{{t^\prime-vx^\prime/c^2}}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}} -\tau_0\right)}$

this way you get

$\nu = \frac{\nu_0}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}$

and

$ \lambda = \left ( \frac{\nu_0 v}{c^2 \sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}} \right )^{-1}$

and you could calculate $\frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk}$ using the facts that $\omega = 2\pi \nu$ and $ k = \frac{2\pi}{\lambda}$ and the chain rule

$ \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = \frac{\frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dv}}{\frac{\mathrm dk}{\mathrm dv}}$

and get the answer

$ \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = v$

but I don't understand the last part. what is the physical meaning of applying chain rule below.

$\large \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = \frac{\frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dv}}{\frac{\mathrm dk}{\mathrm dv}}$

I am confused because we are looking at the electron from one frame of reference and $v$ is constant. Constant means not changing. For example if we use chain rule by $ \nu_0$ we get something like this.

$\large \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = \frac{\frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm d\nu_0}}{\frac{\mathrm dk}{\mathrm d\nu_0}}$

and we get different result

$\large \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = \frac{c^2}{v}$

I wonder the difference between them.

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