Eroxl's Notes
Lorentz Transformation

The Lorentz transformation is a set of linear transformations to convert from events in one frame of reference to another. It can be thought of as an generalization of the Galilean transformation to higher velocities.

Alternatively expanding the partitioned matrix for a 3d space gives us

this value can then be used to calculate the event in the new reference frame

In this example the multiplication between the event and is a matrix product

Expanding out for each term gives us the following equations for each dimension

Derivation

3D

With being the "stationary" frame, with spacetime coordinates , and being the "moving" frame, with spacetime coordinates , moving with some velocity relative to the Lorentz transformation can be derived as follows: