So I should be thinking of the experiment in one reference frame? And not a separate one for each?
My teacher also said it had something to do with the deceleration of the ship for it to turn around and come back. He said that relativity laws don't work during that time interval. Is that...
Ok in my class we just started reviewing relativity and I had a really hard time grasping it. My teacher says that time moves slower as you get closer to light speed, which I understand because time is kind of a made up variable (right?).
The one thing I really have a hard time understanding...
Please try to follow the format on this page
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=94379
Also do you know how to draw forces acting upon an object? If so try doing that first and get your equations from there.
Hi, I hope it's ok that I am brining this thread back but I am having some problems with this proof.
I started with the same equations he has
and I reduce it to
Which is not what the original poster got. As you can see my terms on the right are reversed and I have a cos^2 \theta in...