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I've been reading the book Relativity by Einstein, but need some things cleared up. I have only studied physics in college (took both mechanics and topics pertaining to more smaller scale phenomenas) and have a vague familiarity with concepts of physics but would like to expand on this a bit more.
So here are my questions so far:
-I am assuming that every object has an absolute velocity; am I right?
-We measure kinetic energy with respect to a rigid body such as that of the earth. Do I possesses kinetic energy at this moment in which the Earth is moving? That is I am moving at a certain velocity even if I am at rest with respect to the earth. How can the measurement of kinetic energy be accurate then?
-I am not quite sure what Einstein was intending to explain near the beginning of the book with Gallaien coordinates.
So here are my questions so far:
-I am assuming that every object has an absolute velocity; am I right?
-We measure kinetic energy with respect to a rigid body such as that of the earth. Do I possesses kinetic energy at this moment in which the Earth is moving? That is I am moving at a certain velocity even if I am at rest with respect to the earth. How can the measurement of kinetic energy be accurate then?
-I am not quite sure what Einstein was intending to explain near the beginning of the book with Gallaien coordinates.