1.II
Part II, 2008
Frame is moving with uniform speed in the -direction relative to a laboratory frame . The components of the electric and magnetic fields and in the two frames are related by the Lorentz transformation
where and units are chosen so that . How do the components of the spatial vector (where ) transform?
Show that is obtained from by a rotation through about a spatial axis , where and should be determined. Hence, or otherwise, show that there are precisely two independent scalars associated with which are preserved by the Lorentz transformation, and obtain them.
[Hint: since there exists a unique real such that .]