Consider two inertial frams O and O', with O' moving along the x axis of O with a constant speed
In O events A and B occur with spacetime coordinates
and
respectively.

The vector in 4 dimensional spacetime from A to B in O is
and the components of velocity in O are![]()
and
The Lorentz transformation from
in O to
in O' is

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In O' the components of velocity are



The inverse transformation from O' to O is obtained by changing the sign of
and interchanging
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and
and
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