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Does a Moving Body appear Cool?

Nature volume 213, page 277 (1967)Cite this article

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P. T. LANDSBERG in an interesting note1 suggests that the “true” value of temperature of a moving body at relativistic speeds will appear to be the same as the temperature measured in the inertial frame of the body itself. He reaches this conclusion by re-defining temperature in terms of entropy and of internal energy.

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  1. Landsberg, P. T., Nature, 212, 571 (1966).

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham

    J. H. FREMLIN

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FREMLIN, J. Does a Moving Body appear Cool?. Nature 213, 277 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213277a0

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