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The theory of special relatively replaces the Galilean group with the Poincaré group. This makes the equation s of motion of a particle in an external field only slightly more complicated. However, physics at high velocities looks quite different from its nonrelavistic limit.
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Thirring, W. (1997). Relativistic Motion. In: Classical Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0681-1_5
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