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[b] I'm in desperate need of some help. I am so lost on this: 1. imagine a rocket ship R moving eastward with speed v with respect to the Earth and a rocket ship S moving westward with speed −v with respect to the earth, we wish to know the speed of R with respect to S. a. Go to a reference...

I was trying to do this physics problem which I thought is really damn easy but it won't ever count my answer right on webassign i just want to see what other people get. A flower pot is knocked off a balcony 18.4 m above the sidewalk and falls toward an unsuspecting 1.76 m-tall man who...

thanks for those links. funny that you referred me to an nyu site, since i go there.

I was looking at that Cohen-Tannoudji textbook. Unfortunately it's a little out of my price range. Maybe you have a cheaper recommendation, perhaps something under 30$? Or maybe you have and example you could give me that leads to Planck's constant, or some otherway of understanding uncertainty...

So I am just beginning to emerge myself into quantum physics. I am reading some things about the uncertainty principle and find myself very confused. Why exactly is locating a particle in a small region of space make the velocity of that particle uncertain and vice versa? I'm guessing...

photons are the main part of the electormagnetic spectrum which travels at c. everything else travels relative in order to keep the constant for all observers.

I'm going to take a swing at it too, even though i don't understand the question completely. Simply put, I believe this question is asking about the difference of experiences between each observer in relation to the other. Due to GR, the observer approaching the black hole would appear to slow...

ya. I'm trying to figure out exactly how much energy derived from nuclear fission of uranium is needed to achieve .99999c

great thanks. so to take this further. How much energy does nuclear fission of Uranium yield?

So I'm introducing myself to formulas and such. I just am going over time dilation and the Lorentz factor. Basically now I want to calculate how much energy would be require to bring a mass of 1 (grams) to a velocity of 99.99999c. I'm assuming this is pretty straightforward . correct me if I'm...

I'm going to jump in here with a question too. Is only light at the constant c or the whole electromagnetic spectrum? and if space is warped, is it warped in the frame too or does it remain the same?

So the more gravity there is, the more space and time are bent? and if they are are they bent unanimously? I guess this gets into the other part of general relativity. I'm trying to figure out how gravity bends time. and at what point does it stop time completely.

Could you explain to me in more detail the relation of Mercury's orbit with the stretching of space??

Right this is what I was trying to say: although it seems like you would be able to see and catch up to a beam, you can't. which is what i meant when I said time has to bend in order to keep that light moving at the same speed from the perspective of that object. Am I getting this?

So I'm going to try an explain my logic for how i came up with that, because I'm still not understanding this. If an object is moving next to a beam of light, it seems as though the faster you move, the easier it is to see individual photons (which is obviously not true). However, since the...