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If you're moving:
Do you age slower or faster?
Are you shorter or longer? |
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Age SLOWER
Are SHORTER (along direction of motion) |
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| I'm firing light from a moving object. How fast is the light traveling? |
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| Say you have two watches in bread problem. Which clock reads an earlier time, and by how much? |
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Front clock reads earlier by vx/c^2
x is distance in rest frame. |
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one over [image] |
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[2(-6) + 3(-8) | 2(-7) + 3(-9)]
[4(-6) + 5(-9) | 4(-7) + 5(-9)] |
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| relativistic doppler shift |
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| fsource = fobserved (expression on EQN sheet) |
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(delta tau)^2 < 0
(delta tau)^2 > 0 |
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delta tau < 0 -> spacelike
delta tau > 0 -> timelike |
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| Acceleration from a force |
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| dL -> explain using metric |
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Remember - dL > dr and is going to be longer. Use schwartzschild to solve |
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s = R(theta)
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| Prove a E and B field is physically impossible |
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