Chapter 12: Q40P (page 549)
Show that
Whereis the angle between u and F.
Short Answer
It is proved that .
Chapter 12: Q40P (page 549)
Show that
Whereis the angle between u and F.
It is proved that .
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Get started for free(a) Charge is at rest at the origin in system; charge flies at speed on a trajectory parallel to the axis, but at . What is the electromagnetic force on as it crosses the axis?
(b) Now study the same problem from system , which moves to the right with speed . What is the force on when passes the axis? [Do it two ways: (i) by using your answer to (a) and transforming the force; (ii) by computing the fields in and using the Lorentz law.]
Find the velocity of the muon in Ex. 12.8.
(a) Write out the matrix that describes a Galilean transformation (Eq. 12.12).
(b) Write out the matrix describing a Lorentz transformation along the yaxis.
(c) Find the matrix describing a Lorentz transformation with velocity v along the x axis followed by a Lorentz transformation with velocity along they axis. Does it matter in what order the transformations are carried out?
The coordinates of event Aare and the coordinates of event B are. Assuming the displacement between them is spacelike, find the velocity of the system in which they are simultaneous.
The twin paradox revisited. On their birthday, one twin gets on a moving sidewalk, which carries her out to star X at speed ; her twin brother stays home. When the traveling twin gets to star X, she immediately jumps onto the returning moving sidewalk and comes back to earth, again at speed . She arrives on her birthday (as determined by her watch).
(a) How old is her twin brother?
(b) How far away is star X? (Give your answer in light years.) Call the outbound sidewalk system and the inbound one (the earth system is S). All three systems choose their coordinates and set their master clocks such that at the moment of departure.
(c) What are the coordinates of the jump (from outbound to inbound sidewalk) in S?
(d) What are the coordinates of the jump in ?
(e) What are the coordinates of the jump in ?
(f) If the traveling twin wants her watch to agree with the clock in , how must she reset it immediately after the jump? What does her watch then read when she gets home? (This wouldn’t change her age, of course—she’s still —it would just make her watch agree with the standard synchronization in .)
(g) If the traveling twin is asked the question, “How old is your brother right now?”, what is the correct reply (i) just before she makes the jump, (ii) just after she makes the jump? (Nothing dramatic happens to her brother during the split second between (i) and (ii), of course; what does change abruptly is his sister’s notion of what “right now, back home” means.)
(h) How many earth years does the return trip take? Add this to (ii) from (g) to determine how old she expects him to be at their reunion. Compare your answer to (a).
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