Recent content by Enthu

All clear now. Thanks.

OK, I tried analyzing and I got that observer A will see 1.25 seconds on his own clock and 0.75 seconds on B's clock, and that B will see 1.25 on his own clock and 0.75 on A's. C will see 1.73 seconds on A and B's clocks. Am I correct? These results are a bit confusing...

I figured the asymmetry is in the third situation(2 final frames). Thank you, I'll try continuing this analysis as well using the link you provided. Aha, now it's clear.

Not sure I follow. The time on a clock is a result of its ticking rate, so shouldn't they be proportionate(so I could treat them the same)? Or do you mean something else?

I'm talking about an unsymmetrical situation, yes. When both observers look at the stopped clocks(as you have said, where both stopped clocks show different times to each observer) after reaching a stationary state. Is such a situation even possible? Added another diagram to try and describe...

I understand that the same amount of time has passed, and that the running clocks will show the same time, but the stopped clocks still show different times to each, and then when they look at it they'll see different times on each's stopped clock. This is because in this scenario you can't know...

Why is that? Then how should I define "meet"? And again, if they continue to see each other's clocks as slow and then stop them, and then only stop themselves, wouldn't they see different things on the same clock? I will try to reform the experiment, but I'm afraid I still don't understand...

Let's say we have two objects in space, far from any gravitational source. In each "object", there's an observer, and a clock. Each observer is constantly looking at both clocks(his and the other object's). Now, for observer A, observer B is moving at 0.9c, and for observer B it's the exact...

Oh, that's something I must have missed going through my papers. Thanks.

Ah, thanks. I get it now. Any idea how the actual formula got to v = \sqrt{\frac{mg}{\frac{1}{2}ρC_dA}} (i.e. where's that 0.5 from)?

I started taking MIT's online physics course a couple of days ago, and since I have no physics background at all, I'm getting a bit confused with dimensional analysis. I'm trying to find a formula for the terminal velocity of a rocket, using air density ρ, gravity g, area of rocket affected by...