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Worksheet 5
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| Target date | 3/7/03 | ||||
| Questions | 1. What is an inertial reference frame?
2. Do the laws of mechanics manifestly hold in an inertial frame? 3. How about the laws of electromagnetism? 4. Einstein's 1905 relativity paper is titled: "On the _____________ of moving bodies." 5. What are Einstein's two postulates in this paper? 6. What is an invariant quantity? Why is it interesting? 7. When Michelson and Morley measured the effect of the earth's motion through the aether on the behavior of light, what did they find? 8. In the framework of what theory did Lorentz introduce the Lorentz contraction? 9. List your favorite three fundamental consequences of relativity for mechanics. 10. Why don't we notice relativistic effects most of the time? |
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