AS and A-level Physics Turning points in physics Teaching
... boundary. They should be able to explain reflection and refraction using wave theory in outline. Proof of Snell’s law or the law of reflection is not expected. Newton’s ideas about refraction may be demonstrated by rolling a marble down and across an inclined board which has a horizontal boundary wh ...
... boundary. They should be able to explain reflection and refraction using wave theory in outline. Proof of Snell’s law or the law of reflection is not expected. Newton’s ideas about refraction may be demonstrated by rolling a marble down and across an inclined board which has a horizontal boundary wh ...
rest energy - Purdue Physics
... Stars, are powerful tools used by astronomers to map out the mass distribution of the universe. • This is one of the ways we have determined that the visible mass (atoms in stars that shine) is less than the total mass in the universe. About 4.5% of the universe is baryonic matter (atomic nuclei). A ...
... Stars, are powerful tools used by astronomers to map out the mass distribution of the universe. • This is one of the ways we have determined that the visible mass (atoms in stars that shine) is less than the total mass in the universe. About 4.5% of the universe is baryonic matter (atomic nuclei). A ...
ENERGY - Chapter 3
... gravitation to the structure of space and time The force of gravity arises from a warping of spacetime around a body of matter so that a nearby mass tends to move toward the body General Relativity does not interpret gravity as a ...
... gravitation to the structure of space and time The force of gravity arises from a warping of spacetime around a body of matter so that a nearby mass tends to move toward the body General Relativity does not interpret gravity as a ...
Spring 2011 Final Review Guide
... A light source moving away from the listener (v is positive) would provide an fL that is less than fS. In the visible light spectrum, this causes a shift toward the red end of the light spectrum, so it is called a red shift. When the light source is moving toward the listener (v is negative), then f ...
... A light source moving away from the listener (v is positive) would provide an fL that is less than fS. In the visible light spectrum, this causes a shift toward the red end of the light spectrum, so it is called a red shift. When the light source is moving toward the listener (v is negative), then f ...
Newton`s 1st Law of Motion
... moving, but once moving, no force is required to keep it moving. • The tendency of objects that are moving to stay moving and objects at rest to stay at rest is called Inertia ...
... moving, but once moving, no force is required to keep it moving. • The tendency of objects that are moving to stay moving and objects at rest to stay at rest is called Inertia ...
Motion and Speed
... a specific moment in time (Instantaneous Speed from your other notes). Average speed measures how far an object moves in a given amount of time. ...
... a specific moment in time (Instantaneous Speed from your other notes). Average speed measures how far an object moves in a given amount of time. ...
physics space notes File
... the earth and placed into orbit around the planet. He suggested that such a projectile would have to be launched horizontally from the top of a very high mountain. He argued that as the launch velocity was increased, the distance that the projectile would fall before hitting the earth would increase ...
... the earth and placed into orbit around the planet. He suggested that such a projectile would have to be launched horizontally from the top of a very high mountain. He argued that as the launch velocity was increased, the distance that the projectile would fall before hitting the earth would increase ...
Relativistic Dynamics
... phenomena had wavelike solutions, and predicted a speed which coincided with the measured speed of light, suggested that electric and magnetic fields were stresses or strains in the aether, and Maxwell’s equations were presumably only precisely correct in the frame in which the aether was at rest. H ...
... phenomena had wavelike solutions, and predicted a speed which coincided with the measured speed of light, suggested that electric and magnetic fields were stresses or strains in the aether, and Maxwell’s equations were presumably only precisely correct in the frame in which the aether was at rest. H ...
JHA i (1970), 56-78 THE MICHELSON-MORLEY
... design and results with his “aether-drag” experiment to gain quantitative support for Fresnel’s idea of an all-pervading but partially dragged aether. While Foucault was also working with heavy pendula to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and with massive fly wheels in rapid rotation to demonstr ...
... design and results with his “aether-drag” experiment to gain quantitative support for Fresnel’s idea of an all-pervading but partially dragged aether. While Foucault was also working with heavy pendula to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and with massive fly wheels in rapid rotation to demonstr ...
Experiments on the Diffraction of Cathode Rays G. P. Thomson
... On the de Broglie theory the electron is considered as a group of waves and its motion through matter is determined by considerations of scattering and diffraction. For electrons of 25,000 volts energy the wave-length h calculated from the above formula is about 0.75 x em. This is of the order of th ...
... On the de Broglie theory the electron is considered as a group of waves and its motion through matter is determined by considerations of scattering and diffraction. For electrons of 25,000 volts energy the wave-length h calculated from the above formula is about 0.75 x em. This is of the order of th ...
General Relativity - UF Physics
... won the Nobel prize for their measurements on the orbital frequency of a binary neutron star system. Some neutron stars are “pulsars”, and they emit radiation at rapid intervals corresponding to the rapid rotation rate. Such a binary system is predicted to emit gravitational waves, and such waves ca ...
... won the Nobel prize for their measurements on the orbital frequency of a binary neutron star system. Some neutron stars are “pulsars”, and they emit radiation at rapid intervals corresponding to the rapid rotation rate. Such a binary system is predicted to emit gravitational waves, and such waves ca ...
General Relativity The Equivalence Principle
... won the Nobel prize for their measurements on the orbital frequency of a binary neutron star system. Some neutron stars are “pulsars”, and they emit radiation at rapid intervals corresponding to the rapid rotation rate. Such a binary system is predicted to emit gravitational waves, and such waves ca ...
... won the Nobel prize for their measurements on the orbital frequency of a binary neutron star system. Some neutron stars are “pulsars”, and they emit radiation at rapid intervals corresponding to the rapid rotation rate. Such a binary system is predicted to emit gravitational waves, and such waves ca ...
A moving clock ticks slower.
... The time interval between two events which occur at the same place in an observer’s frame of reference is called the proper time of the interval between the events. We use t0 to denote proper time. Suppose you are timing an event by clicking a stopwatch on at the start and off at the end. In order f ...
... The time interval between two events which occur at the same place in an observer’s frame of reference is called the proper time of the interval between the events. We use t0 to denote proper time. Suppose you are timing an event by clicking a stopwatch on at the start and off at the end. In order f ...
Handout 1
... When two events occur at the same location in an inertial reference frame, the time interval between them, measured in that frame, is called the proper time interval. Measurements of the same time interval from any other inertial reference frame are always greater. ...
... When two events occur at the same location in an inertial reference frame, the time interval between them, measured in that frame, is called the proper time interval. Measurements of the same time interval from any other inertial reference frame are always greater. ...
Chapter 19 Option H: RELATIVITY
... Let us return to our two observers Paul and Mary above. Suppose that Mary were to measure the speed of a light ...
... Let us return to our two observers Paul and Mary above. Suppose that Mary were to measure the speed of a light ...
Lecture Notes: Chapter 2 Motion
... Motion occurs when _________________________________________________ ...
... Motion occurs when _________________________________________________ ...
Maxwell and Special Relativity - Physics Department, Princeton
... The transformation (7) is compatible with both magnetic Galilean relativity, eq. (3), and the low-velocity limit of special relativity, eq. (4). These two version of relativity differ as to the transformation of the magnetic field. In particular, if B = 0 while E were due to a single electric charge a ...
... The transformation (7) is compatible with both magnetic Galilean relativity, eq. (3), and the low-velocity limit of special relativity, eq. (4). These two version of relativity differ as to the transformation of the magnetic field. In particular, if B = 0 while E were due to a single electric charge a ...
AH Physics SpaceandTimeTeachersNotes Mary
... Higher Physics but not in Advanced Higher Physics). The effects of special relativity are generally only apparent for speeds over 10% of the speed of light, unless one makes extremely precise measurements, for example using atomic clocks. Special relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics at lower sp ...
... Higher Physics but not in Advanced Higher Physics). The effects of special relativity are generally only apparent for speeds over 10% of the speed of light, unless one makes extremely precise measurements, for example using atomic clocks. Special relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics at lower sp ...
File - USNA
... exclusively to mean rest mass. Although we may use the terms mass and rest mass synonymously, we will not use the term relativistic mass. The use of relativistic mass to often leads the student into mistakenly inserting the term into classical expressions ...
... exclusively to mean rest mass. Although we may use the terms mass and rest mass synonymously, we will not use the term relativistic mass. The use of relativistic mass to often leads the student into mistakenly inserting the term into classical expressions ...
A space-time geometric interpretation of the beta factor in Special
... fissionable material in a nuclear bomb at rest makes a sudden right angle turn from moving through time to moving through space in the form of photons and other light-speed items, such as neutrinos. In gravitational fields and other accelerative processes, masses undergo smooth rotations in space-ti ...
... fissionable material in a nuclear bomb at rest makes a sudden right angle turn from moving through time to moving through space in the form of photons and other light-speed items, such as neutrinos. In gravitational fields and other accelerative processes, masses undergo smooth rotations in space-ti ...
Undergraduate Laboratory Projects
... The Department needs Mechanical / Industrial Engineering Students from Concordia to work on the following projects. The payment is similar to the payment scale for the Teaching Assistants. 01. Further development of the Machinery Fault Simulator Experiments in Theory of Machines & Vibrations. Needs ...
... The Department needs Mechanical / Industrial Engineering Students from Concordia to work on the following projects. The payment is similar to the payment scale for the Teaching Assistants. 01. Further development of the Machinery Fault Simulator Experiments in Theory of Machines & Vibrations. Needs ...
Slide 1
... The time interval between two events which occur at the same place in an observer’s frame of reference is called the proper time of the interval between the events. We use t0 to denote proper time. Suppose you are timing an event by clicking a stopwatch on at the start and off at the end. In order f ...
... The time interval between two events which occur at the same place in an observer’s frame of reference is called the proper time of the interval between the events. We use t0 to denote proper time. Suppose you are timing an event by clicking a stopwatch on at the start and off at the end. In order f ...
Annotations of Practical Activities for Motion Area of Study
... transformations experimentally, analyse motion using Newton’s laws of motion in one and two dimensions, and explain the motion of objects moving at very large speeds using Einstein’s theory of special relativity. To achieve this outcome the student will draw on key knowledge outlined in Area of Stud ...
... transformations experimentally, analyse motion using Newton’s laws of motion in one and two dimensions, and explain the motion of objects moving at very large speeds using Einstein’s theory of special relativity. To achieve this outcome the student will draw on key knowledge outlined in Area of Stud ...
Motion and Speed
... • Most of the time objects do not travel at a constant speed – You probably do not walk at one constant speed on the way to class • This is why when we talk about how fast an object is moving we are usually talking about its average speed. • If we are talking about an object’s speed at a particular ...
... • Most of the time objects do not travel at a constant speed – You probably do not walk at one constant speed on the way to class • This is why when we talk about how fast an object is moving we are usually talking about its average speed. • If we are talking about an object’s speed at a particular ...
Tests of special relativity
Special relativity is a physical theory that plays a fundamental role in the description of all physical phenomena, as long as gravitation is not significant. Many experiments played (and still play) an important role in its development and justification. The strength of the theory lies in its unique ability to correctly predict to high precision the outcome of an extremely diverse range of experiments. Repeats of many of those experiments are still being conducted with steadily increased precision, with modern experiments focusing on effects such as at the Planck scale and in the neutrino sector. Their results are consistent with the predictions of special relativity. Collections of various tests were given by Jakob Laub, Zhang, Mattingly, Clifford Will, and Roberts/Schleif.Special relativity is restricted to flat spacetime, i.e., to all phenomena without significant influence of gravitation. The latter lies in the domain of general relativity and the corresponding tests of general relativity must be considered.