Simple Nature - Light and Matter

a/Two events are given as points on a graph of position versus time. Joan of Arc helps to restore Charles VII to the throne. At ...

d/A Galilean version of the relationship between two frames of reference. As in all such graphs in this chapter, the original co ...

e/A transformation that leads to disagreements about whether two events occur at the same time and place. This is not just a mat ...

h/In the units that are most convenient for relativity, the trans- formation has symmetry about a 45-degree diagonal line. i/Int ...

pick the time unit to be the second, then the distance unit turns out to be hundreds of thousands of miles. In these units, the ...

k/Theγfactor. l/The ruler is moving in frame 1, represented by a square, but at rest in frame 2, shown as a parallelogram. Each ...

n/A graph ofγas a function of v. Figure n shows the behavior ofγas a function ofv. Changing an equation from natural units to SI ...

p/Muons accelerated to nearlyc undergo radioactive decay much more slowly than they would according to an observer at rest with ...

q/Apparatus used for the test of relativistic time dilation de- scribed in example 5. The promi- nent black and white blocks are ...

s/Example 7: In the garage’s frame of reference, the bus is moving, and can fit in the garage due to its length contraction. In ...

t/A proof that causality im- poses a universal speed limit. In the original frame of reference, represented by the square, event ...

u/The Michelson-Morley experiment, shown in photographs, and drawings from the original 1887 paper. 1. A simplified drawing of t ...

v/A ring laser gyroscope. The Michelson-Morley experiment The constancy of the speed of light had in fact already been observed ...

Discussion question B Discussion Questions A A person in a spaceship moving at 99.99999999% of the speed of light relative to Ea ...

G The graph shows three galaxies. The axes are drawn according to an observer at rest relative to the galaxy 2, so that that gal ...

Discussion question H. 7.2.4 No action at a distance The Newtonian picture The Newtonian picture of the universe has particles i ...

z/Fields carry energy. would then be possible to send signals from one place in the uni- verse to another without any time lag. ...

causes your socks to cling together when they come out of the clothes dryer. We’ll say the force is repulsive, although again it ...

ab/Discussion question E. B The figure shows a famous thought experiment devised by Einstein. A train is moving at constant velo ...

ac/The light cone. from P in space, and too close in time, to allow any cause and effect relationship, since causality’s maximum ...