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Well, I wasn’t really aiming at the twin paradox aspect itself, but more at working out the calculation from the perspective of a...
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Since you are interested in "circular twin paradox", the meaningful quantity is the...
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Ah, yes, that's right. I was implicitly thinking of it that way. Good catch!
Yesterday, 10:06 PM
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Yeah, definitely! You also have "math" "\math" tags, but such forums/platforms usually have a button to put them there. (Isn't there...
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Both work, but the double pound signs and dollar signs are definitely easier and quicker to type, and easier to keep track of. :wink:
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But I don't really understand. I see your point about dimensions, but from the standard derivation in polar coordinates the cross term...
Yesterday, 9:10 PM
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Ok, thank you. I see I need to use ## and $$ instead of "itex" and "tex" tags. Sorry about that.
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Your ##d \phi d t## cross term isn't quite right; the factor in front should be ##2 \omega r##, not ##2 \omega r^2##. (When doing these...
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You had two bugs, opening "itex" tags and closing "tex" tags. I just used magic moderator powers to fix both of them. Your equations...
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Thanks for the replies and sorry I didn't reply earlier. (I was a bit sick and got really sick after posting this question, feeling a...
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So, to calculate a proper time of a worldline in SR using an inertial frame is quite easy. But I struggled a bit using a "rotating frame...
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