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Agreed. That is not consistent with what you wrote in #28, though.
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That's the equation in #28:Ibix said:Agreed. That is not consistent with what you wrote in #28, though.
bobie said:$$\frac{\gamma_r}{\gamma_R}=\sqrt{\frac{1-R_s/A}{1-R_s/B}}$$
Try reading them carefully.bobie said:##\sqrt( \frac{1- R_s:3*10^8/B:10^10 = .97}{1-3*10^8/ A:10^12 = .9997})##
$$\frac{\gamma_r}{\gamma_R}=\sqrt{\frac{1-R_s/A =10^{12}}{1-R_s/B=10^{10}}}$$.Ibix said:Try reading them carefully.
Note that in order to extend the vinculum in the square root sign over the entire expression, the expression should be enclosed in curly braces, not parentheses. By default the \sqrt takes as its argument the next symbol (in this case, just the leading parenthesis).bobie said:That's the equation in #28:
##\sqrt( \frac{1-3*10^8/10^10 = .97}{1-3*10^8/ 10^12 = .9997})##
and this is #30
##\sqrt( \frac{1- R_s:3*10^8/B:10^10 = .97}{1-3*10^8/ A:10^12 = .9997})##
and the result is .985
Thanks jbriggs, you are extremely kindjbriggs444 said:Note that in order to extend the vinculum in the square root sign over the entire expression, the expression should be enclosed in curly braces, not parentheses. By default the \sqrt takes as its argument the next symbol (in this case, just the leading parenthesis)...
Hi jbriggs,jbriggs444 said:Note that in order t.
what syntax?jbriggs444 said:The syntax looks fine. The semantics, I'm not going to throw out an opinion.
Syntax: The expression is well formed. It conforms to the rules for constructing well-formed formulas. That is the sort of "typo" that I am qualified to search for.bobie said:what syntax?
bobie said:shouldn't the ratio be inverted?
Why would you think that?bobie said:shouldn't the ratio be inverted?
well, normally, if on one side we get a ratio say between R and r, the ratio on the right side should follow the same order , that is ...R/ ...r.Ibix said:Why would you think that?
bobie said:normally, if on one side we get a ratio say between R and r,
bobie said:In your formula , the order is surprisingly reversed, and I really can't see the logic of that, what is it?
I meant:PeterDonis said:Which you don't have on the left side. You have a ratio between ##\gamma_R## and ##\gamma_r##. You do realize that those ##\gamma## thingies vary inversely with ##r##, right?
Um, that ##\gamma## varies inversely with ##r##? Meaning that, as ##r## gets bigger, ##\gamma## gets smaller?
An expression like this makes no sense. It seems that you are saying that something equals 1012, but it's not clear what. You should state this separately outside of the equation and not put equal signs within a fraction.bobie said:$$\frac{1-R_s/A =10^{12}}{1-R_s/B=10^{10}}$$.
The post was a quick reminder that R = A = 10^12 cm,DrGreg said:An expression like this makes no sense. It seems that you are saying that something equals 1012, but it's not clear what. You should state this separately outside of the equation and not put equal signs within a fraction.
It would be better to writebobie said:The post was a quick reminder that R = A = 10^12 cm,
$$\frac{\gamma_r^2}{\gamma_R^2}= \frac{1-R_s/(A =10^{12})}{1-R_s/B=10^{10}}$$.
therefore the factor on the dividend there , in my view, refers to the gamma factor at R and the ratio is therefore: $$\frac{\gamma_R^2}{\gamma_r^2}$$.
I found on the web this formula:PeterDonis said:No.
bobie said:I found on the web this formula:
So have you managed to get around to looking through this thread for the definition of ##\gamma##, as I implied you should in #35? I strongly suspect the answer is no given your subsequent posts, this one in particular. If not, why not? If so, what have you done with it and where are you stuck?bobie said:I found on the web this formula:
$$ v = c \sqrt{1 - \frac{1}{\gamma^2}\left(1 - \frac{r_s}{r}\right)} $$
is it a good formula, in what differs from yours?
Vanadium 50 said:This has turned into a game of "guess and check".
PeterDonis said:Where? Please give a reference.
Ibix said:We're not really interested in doing high-school level algebra for you, especially if you give us no evidence you've tried it yourself. That's basically why the responses are becoming less helpful.
I didn't ask anyone to hold my hand (#35) or do cheap algebra (#53) for me.Do you know the formula we must use to find the relativistic increase of velocity? from other calcs the velocity of F should be .9902 or so-
Thanks
You already have a formula. I gave it to you in #7. You used it to get a ratio of ##\gamma##s but seem incapable of getting to the velocity from there. Why? What have you tried? Apart from insisting (incorrectly) that the formula must be wrong?bobie said:I didn't ask anyone to hold my hand (#35) or do cheap algebra (#53) for me.
You are only patronizing me, as usual, do you think I'll get a formula sometime?, eventually?
bobie said:over 50 posts ago I simply asked for the relativistic formula for gravity
bobie said:do you think I'll get a formula sometime?, eventually?