Absolute Time Clock Experiments: Einstein's Special Relativity

[Dale]

I don't think you need more explanations. I think you need to work some problems. There is a reason that homework problems are an essential part of any physics course. In the process of actually calculating the answers you learn things that are not easy to explain verbally. Please work the problem I suggested in 188, I think it will help your understanding.

 

[harrylin]

Hearld,
Sorry, but if you open with a complain, [..]
Please - replies only relating to my questions!

Sorry if I sounded like complaining, that was not intended! I tried to make clear that already the answers had been there, in our earlier replies.
But this time I did even better, for just after answering your post #178 (which clarified a lot for you), I now answered in one reply:

- your post #186,
- your post #190,
- your post #192

So, I answered to all your remaining questions in my last reply!

Did you really read it and think it over? Next you could try to get a better feeling for it by doing a few calculations, as Dalespam and I recommended.

Success!
Harald

 

[ghwellsjr]

Roi, are you trying to understand how in one frame time dilation can exist for a particular clock but in another frame, there is no time dilation for the very same clock?

 

[harrylin]

Roi, are you trying to understand how in one frame time dilation can exist for a particular clock but in another frame, there is no time dilation for the very same clock?

I'm pretty sure of that - that's why I gave him the kinetic energy example!

 

[PhilDSP]

Hi Roi,

I'm wondering if it might be easiest to put everything together if one first understands why the concept of length contraction became the primary aspect of SR and LET in the first place. To understand that we really don't need to refer to the MMX and neither do we need to know any terminology or relationships which are now part of SR or LET.

To begin, we can describe how the frequency of sound waves are experienced when a person moves with respect to the source of the sound waves. Do you understand the Doppler effect and can you describe that verbally or with math?