Simple Nature - Light and Matter

Problem 18. 13 (a) A charged particle is surrounded by a uniform electric field. Starting from rest, it is accelerated by the fi ...

Problem 25b. Redrawn from Van Baak, Physics Today 60 (2007) 16. 20 The following are the three most common ways in which gamma r ...

26 The International Space Station orbits at an altitude of about 350 km and a speed of about 8000 m/s relative to the ground. C ...

32 Natural relativistic units were introduced on p. 406, and examples 1 and 2 on pp. 407 and 407 gave examples of how to convert ...

Exercises Exercise 7A: The Michelson-Morley Experiment In this exercise you will analyze the Michelson-Morley experiment, and fi ...

Groups 1-4 work in the sun’s frame of reference according to Galilean relativity. Group 1 finds time AC. Group 2 finds time CA. ...

Exercise 7B: Sports in Slowlightland In Slowlightland, the speed of light is 20 mi/hr≈32 km/hr≈9 m/s. Think of an example of how ...

Exercise 7C: Events and Spacetime 468 Chapter 7 Relativity ...

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Exercise 7D: Misconceptions about Relativity The following is a list of common misconceptions about relativity. The class will b ...

Exercise 7E: The sum of observer-vectors is an observer-vector. The figure gives four pairs of four-vectors, oriented in our cus ...

Chapter 8 Atoms and Electromagnetism 8.1 The electric glue Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has ...

the sun, moon, stars, and planets were fundamentally different from earthly objects. But Newton realized that if science was to ...

a/Four pieces of tape are prepared, 1, as described in the text. Depending on which com- bination is tested, the interaction can ...

Two types of charge We can easily collect reams of data on electrical forces between different substances that have been charged ...

Use of positive and negative signs for charge Because the two types of charge tend to cancel out each other’s forces, it makes s ...

b/A charged piece of tape attracts uncharged pieces of paper from a distance, and they leap up to it. c/The paper has zero total ...

come in two general types. Permanent magnets, such as the ones on your refrigerator, are made of iron or substances like steel t ...

to get the beam up to speed in the first place, since they can only push perpendicular to the electrons’ direction of motion, no ...