Recent content by chrisakel

thanks for all of the information...very interesting

So would a pilot traveling in a supersonic jet hear his own engines, or would he only hear them after a certain time period once he had decelerated to a sub-sonic speed?

okay, so you would hear the jet as it passes you, then you would hear the jet coming towards you and then away from you once it has already passed you?

Quick Question...If a supersonic jet passes directly in front of you and you are infinitely close to the jet (there is no distance between you and the jet theoretically), would you hear the jet as it passes you or after it has already passed you? I think you would hear it as it passes...

Thanks for all the information

I have only used the TI-89 and its been good to me.

I know that relativistically, it is absolutely impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light. However, let's say that something were to travel faster than the speed of light... I would postulate that although it is traveling faster than light, it can only visibly be seen...

ok, I see...it makes sense now, I had a mental block going on...Thank you

I must be getting confused when you say that you channel the "beam"...what is it a beam of?

Thank you...this is probably quite a vague question, but it sounds to me like this technique is somewhat, if not fully dependent on light, does that sound right?...In other words, in the complete absence of light, would they still be able to determine the particles kinetic energy and thus its...

thanks, but do you have any idea how they measure the kinetic energy, there has to be a very specific method that they use due to the speeds of the particles?...I actually e-mailed a CERN scientist and asked him this very question but unfortunately I received no reply.

does anybody know how scientists and physicists at places such as CERN determine the speeds of the particles that they accelerate to nearly the speed of light? basically, what is their technique for determing the speed of the particles?