Recent content by Jonathan Densil

So, if you didn't want to use Length contraction or time dilation, you would need to use event Q and R, am I right? What other events would you not need to answer the question with purely the Lorentz transformations?

I thought that planet B's clock reads 11.55 years when Bobby lands on it. What is 8.66 years in relation to the question?

What question would you pose to use events P, or R?

I'm getting a little lost in all of the different events. So on a test, they would generally ask one question, such as, what is the time Booby takes to get to planet B that Anna observes? Or, what is the time and distance that Booby observes to get to planet B? etc. I'd imagine you would not...

So, if I was to use length contraction and time dilation as I normally would, in Anna's reference frame, she perceives herself to be stationary and measures the distance between Earth and planet B to be 10 light-years. If I was to use the length contraction formula ##L=\frac{L_0}{\gamma}## if...

I'm very sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean by the observer's spatial location, can you please give me an example and how the lorentz transform equation would correspond to the values in the example?

If I had a specific ##t## value or ##x## value, couldn't I just make it a ##\Delta x## or ##\Delta t## by subtracting ##0## from it? My question really is, if making a calculation from the observer's reference frame, wouldn't his/her ##x## value just be ##0## because he is stationary relative...

Hey guys, In what circumstance or scenario would you use Lorentz transformations as a opposed to time dilation or length contraction? The reason that I ask this is because in all of the problems that I have worked with, the observer is always stationary relative to the event. For example, if...

That is all of my trials data. I'm not aware of what the quadratic method is, sorry, can you please explain?

The steps that I took: Using the Vernier Dual Range Force Sensor, I measured the weight of the bottle as the water was flowing out of the hole at the bottom I organized the data into a table of time on the left column and weight on the right column in Vernier LoggerPro software Using the...

I already have the derivatives at each point, I'm just not sure how to calculate the uncertainty for each derived point. Thanks for your help though, Kind regards, Jonathan

Homework Statement I know this is more of a physics question, but I tried there and wasn't successful. I have done a physics experiment measuring the weight as a function time of the discharge of water from a cylindrical bottle with a pinhole at the bottom. What I ultimately want to get at is...

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Hello Chestmiller, I just have a quick question about uncertainties. I took the derivative of the weight to get weight flow rate. So, if I have the uncertainty for the weight, how do I find the uncertainty of the weight flow rate.

Thank you very, very much, I really appreciate your help. The equation works and very happy that I understand how I got it. I really am very thankful for your help. I struggled to make sense of it all for an entire week with my math and physics teachers at school. Thanks again, Kind regards...