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Sagittarius A-Star reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Undergrad Textbook description of R##\ddot{\text o}##mer's light speed calculation with
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The direction determines whether you see a lengthened or shortened eclipse. The speed (times the more-or-less constant duration of an... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Textbook description of R##\ddot{\text o}##mer's light speed calculation.The following shows, that Roemer measured a Doppler-effect. Source: https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath203/kmath203.htm -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Special relativity and diffracting beams.The Abbe diffraction limit assumes an isotropic wavelength. The relativistic movement of a reference frame in longitudinal direction... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Could the (SR) forbidden photon's own referential mean something?.It makes no sence to speak of the perspective of a photon because a rest-frame of a photon does not exist. -
Sagittarius A-Star reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force? with
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I agree that in GR free-falling particles follow geodesics and experience no force by definition. My point was simpler (for... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force?.If small bodies follow their geodesics, that is in GR not considered as an interaction force. Consider in flat spacetime two small... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force?.That are in GR not gravitational interaction forces but electric forces within the extended object. -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad The effect of a radio wave on an electron.That's almost correct. It moves a distance ##a (1 \text{s})^2## ahead. Please see above. -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad The effect of a radio wave on an electron.That's wrong. Besides the fact, that the physical units on the left and right side of the equation are different, ##x(2s)## cannot be... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad The effect of a radio wave on an electron.That would be in average the case for electrons in a resistor, but in the OP screenshot, the electron is - according to the problem - in... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread Undergrad The effect of a radio wave on an electron.##v(t) = \dfrac{a_0}{\omega} (1 -\cos\omega t)## Assume you repeat periodically: accelerate your car from 0 mph to 65 mph, then press... -
Sagittarius A-Star reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread High School A question about special relativity with
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A.T. gave an excellent answer in post #2, but perhaps the original question was even simpler than we made it: if a clock moves fast... -
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It should be noted that no matter what the axis of the local motion in the rocket is, over an entire local motion cycle it is slowed by... -
Sagittarius A-Star reacted to DennisN's post in the thread Anyone like “2001: A Space Odyssey?” with
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Oh yes, he was a remarkable filmmaker! :smile: And I also like Barry Lyndon and The Shining. By the way, by coincidence a friend of... -
Sagittarius A-Star replied to the thread High School A question about special relativity.The calculation result depends on the direction of movement of things in the moving frame. Assume the two coordinate systems in...
