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§7 · Doppler shift and aberration

Follow the introduction and all ten sections, including field transformations, finite light complexes, moving mirrors, charge-current transformations, and the electron-force conventions.

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One phase fixes frequency and direction

Transforming a plane wave’s phase yields both the frequency ratio and aberration. At 0.6c a collinear ray has frequency ratio one half; a ray transverse in the original frame instead has ratio 1.25.