Recent content by tnedde

I’m an applied math grad student and I wanted to check my conceptual understanding of what I thought was a basic mechanics problem. You have two blocks connected by a weightless, frictionless string passing through a tiny hole in a table. On the table, one block (mass m) rotates without friction...

I am a newcomer to relativity, currently studying the subject on my own, via Modern Physics by Bernstein et al. I have a question based on pgs 57-58 of the text. Suppose that two reference frames S and S' are similarly oriented, and S' is moving with constant velocity v in the positive...