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    In relativity, proper velocity (also known as celerity) w of an object relative to an observer is the ratio between observer-measured displacement vector...
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  • the proper time of the object. The four-velocity is the rate of change of four-position with respect to the proper time along the curve. The velocity, in...
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    special relativity, for unidirectional motion, proper acceleration is the rate of change of proper velocity with respect to coordinate time. In an inertial...
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    motion. Four-velocity (relativistic version of velocity for Minkowski spacetime) Group velocity Hypervelocity Phase velocity Proper velocity (in relativity...
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    Majewski, Steven R. (2006). "Stellar motions: parallax, proper motion, radial velocity and space velocity". University of Virginia. Archived from the original...
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    used. Lorentz transformation Minkowski space Proper length Proper acceleration Proper mass Proper velocity Clock hypothesis Peres metric Zwiebach 2004...
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    parallel. A proper velocity space model of hyperbolic geometry is given by proper velocities with vector addition given by the proper velocity addition formula:...
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    Related words are velocity, rapidity, and celerity which is proper velocity. Speed is a scalar, being the magnitude of the velocity vector which in relativity...
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    dispersion relation, one can calculate the frequency-dependent phase velocity and group velocity of each sinusoidal component of a wave in the medium, as a function...
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    In standard cosmology, comoving distance and proper distance (or physical distance) are two closely related distance measures used by cosmologists to define...
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