CHARGED PARTICLES AND THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD IN NONINERTIAL FRAMES OF MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME: II. APPLICATIONS: ROTATING FRAMES, SAGNAC EFFECT, FARADAY ROTATION, WRAP-UP EFFECT

摘要

We apply the theory of noninertial frames in Minkowski space-time, developed in the previous paper, to various relevant physical systems. We give the 3 + 1 description without coordinate singularities of the rotating disk and the Sagnac effect, with added comments on pulsar magnetosphere and on a relativistic extension of the Earth-fixed coordinate system. Then we study properties of Maxwell equations in noninertial frames like the wrap-up effect and the Faraday rotation in astrophysics.